Name: First Earthrise seen by human eyes
Brand: William Anders
Price: 6000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Apollo 8, December 21-27, 1968, orbit 4, 075:48:39 GET

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 / North American Rockwell) [NASA AS8-14-2383]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

Schick and Van Haaften, p. 98; Chaikin, Space, p. 83; Newhall pp. 136-37; Jacobs, p. 32; Reynolds, p. 111; Life Magazine, January 10, 1969, pp. 20-21.

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Lot Essay

The Apollo 8 astronauts saw the first Earthrise ever witnessed by human eyes during the fourth revolution of the spacecraft around the Moon.
William Anders took three photographs with the 250mm telephoto lens during the event. The first was black and white, followed by two color photographs, including this celebrated view of planet Earth appearing over the bleached lunar horizon.
Different versions of the image (with different contrasts and tones) were published by NASA, including this one matching closely the photograph published in Life Magazine on January 10, 1969.

“The happy combination of a long lens, color film, my varying f-stops as I shot, and a much cleaner window on my side of the spacecraft, all resulted in one of the pictures from my camera’s magazine being selected by NASA as what has since become the iconic ‘Earthrise’. ”
William Anders (Jacobs, p. 33)