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Norman Mailer
MoonFire, 2009Hardcover in box with framed print, 36,5 x 44 cm, 11,04 kg, 350 pagesEdition of 1.957 plus 200 APBook numbered
Print numbered and signed by Buzz AldrinCopyright The Artist€ 4,000.00Further images
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To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, TASCHEN has paired Norman Mailer’s seminal text with spectacular photography from the archives of NASA, LIFE magazine, and...To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 Moon landing, TASCHEN has paired Norman Mailer’s seminal text with spectacular photography from the archives of NASA, LIFE magazine, and many other sources to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our time.
It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy’s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, a budget of 24 billion dollars, and the most powerful rocket ever launched all combined in an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer.
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer was hired by LIFE in 1969 to cover the Moon shot. His three-part feature was the longest nonfiction piece LIFE had published. He enhanced and extended his reportage with deeper reflection in the book Of a Fire on the Moon, excerpted here for the first time. Equally adept at examining the science of space travel and the psychology of the men involved—from Saturn V rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, to the crucial NASA support staff, to the three astronauts—Mailer provides insights into this epoch-making event.
Illustrating this volume are hundreds of photographs and maps from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many of them previously unpublished, these images document the development of the agency and the mission, life inside the command module and on the Moon’s surface, and the world’s reaction to the landing. This edition includes an introduction by Colum McCann and captions by Apollo 11 experts, explaining the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log and publications of the day, and post-flight astronaut interviews.
Outline of editions:
* Limited to 1,969 copies in two editions
* Each copy includes a Plexiglas-framed archival-quality numbered photographic print, produced using the Skia printing technique, and signed by Buzz Aldrin. This shot of Aldrin walking on the Moon is the definitive image of the Apollo 11 mission.
Hardcover in box with print
* XXL format: 36.5 x 44 cm; with framed print: 32.5 x 40 cm
* 348 pages, including 4 fold-outs
* Restored with state-of-the-art digital technology
* English language edition
Collector’s Edition No. 1–1,957
Limited to 1,957 numbered copies
Packaged in a custom-molded white resin box with convex Plexiglas window
No. 1,958–1,969 Lunar Rock Edition
Designed by Marc Newson, only 12 copies
Each copy includes a unique specimen of lunar rock, ranging from 0.4 grams to 30.34 grams
Specifications and prices available on request
Contributors:
Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the Moon, graduate of West Point, Sc.D. from MIT, astronaut on Gemini XII and Apollo 11, founder of the Human Spaceflight Institute.
Colum McCann, author of eight books including Let the Great World Spin. Contributor to The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Times (London), The Irish Times, and La República.
Author: Norman Mailer (1923–2007), one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Author of novels, nonfiction, plays, screenplays, essays, poetry, and short stories. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes.
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