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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Neil Armstrong simulating the deployment of the lunar surface TV camera

Apollo 11, April 1969

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-69-33923” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Neil Armstrong examining his lunar surface Hasselblad camera in preparation for the historic Moonwalk

Apollo 11, June 1969

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-69- 38489” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Zürich, Kunsthaus, Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, Fly me to the Moon, March-June 2019 and July- November 2019; exhibition catalogue, p. 232, no. 42, illustrated.

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Neil Armstrong is wearing an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) with his Hasselblad camera mounted to the chest in Building 9 at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC).
The B&W TV camera specifically designed by Westinghouse for the lunar surface transmitted the most famous TV broadcast in history.

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Buzz Aldrin holds the visor of Neil Armstrong as he checks the settings of the Hasselblad 500 EL Data camera and its 60mm Zeiss-Biogon lens.

Fifty years after the mission, what Michael Collins does vividly recall is seeing the photographs that his two crewmates took while on the Moon.
“The thing that I can remember that impressed me was the clarity,” he said. “That 70mm Hasselblad camera told the truth so viscerally, so dramatically. And the clarity of it — I mean there’s no atmosphere, obviously, on the Moon, so you know that before you look at the pictures, but the beauty, the detail, the magnificence of the photography, that was just a surreal look to me and I was just surprised that it was so vivid and so clear” (2019 interview with Robert Pearlman).