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Michael Collins

Sunset over Crater Icarus

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, orbit 19-26

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso [NASA AS11-44-6606]

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Michael Collins

Diptych: The forbidding center of the lunar farside near Crater Daedalus

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, orbit 19-26

Set of two vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), both with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the versos, the first with NASA MSC caption and stamped “AS11 446608” on the verso, the second numbered “NASA AS11-44-6609” (NASA MSC) in blue in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Schick and Van Haaften, p.77.

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Thomas, pp. 186-187.

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Copenhagen, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018-January 2019 and February-May 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 113, no. 5, illustrated.

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This remarkable photograph (taken looking south west during one of the orbital passes between orbits 19 and 26 with the 80mm lens and magazine 44/V) shows the illuminated central peak of the 93-km Crater Icarus.
Most of Icarus’s floor is in pitch black shadow at the lunar terminator.
Latitude / longitude: 8° S / 175° W.

“The lunar surface is a strange place in that it varies, or your reaction varies, with the angle of the Sun. Near local noontime, it has a sort of rosy, benign look, and near down and dusk it has a monochromatic look, black, grey, not really white. At the low Sun angles, of course, these craters cast long shadows, and they make the Moon appear extraordinary rough, a jumble of craters. You can’t imagine that you could possibly land there,” said Michael Collins (Schick and Van Haaften, p.77).

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These adjoining photographs taken looking south west during one of the orbital passes between orbits 19 and 26 with the 80mm lens and magazine 44/V.
The 93-km Crater Daedalus is in the center of the second photograph (and cut off at the extreme right of the first photograph).
Latitude / Longitude: 4° S / 179° E.

“When the Sun is shining on the surface at a very shallow angle, the craters cast long shadows and the Moon’s surface seems very inhospitable, forbidding almost. I did not sense any great invitation on the part of the Moon for us to come into its domain,” said Collins. “I sensed more almost a hostile place, a scary place” (from the documentary In The Shadow of the Moon, 2007).