Neil Armstrong

Portrait of Buzz Aldrin with the photographer and the Lunar Module reflected in his gold-plated visor

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 110:42:39 GET

Large-format presentation vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 27.7 x 35.5cm (11 x 14in), with NASA / US Army caption numbered “AS11-40-5903” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
27.7 x 35.5cm (11 x 14in)

Chaikin, Space, p. 95; Thomas, frontispiece; Jacobs, p. 62; Reynolds, p. 145; Arnold, plate 17, Chaikin, Voices, p.179; NASA SP-350, cover.

Zürich, Kunsthaus, Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, Fly me to the Moon, March-June 2019 and July- November 2019, exhibition catalogue, p. 41, no. 37, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

A “Man on the Moon,” the legendary image.

“What you remember of the lunar surface is more having looked at the picture over and over again, and looked and studied it. I remember more about what the Moon’s about because of the photographs we took that I look back on, that give me a better recollection of it than is up there [points to his head].”
Buzz Aldrin (Chaikin, Voices, p.178)