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Summary: Stunning! The moon as fine art.
Review: Full Moon shows you the moon as you never seen it before. The original NASA negatives were scanned at high resolution and processed to bring out their original beauty. Even photos you seen many times before come out with stunning clarity, crispness, and beauty. It also includes several spectacular gatefold panoramas of the rugged lunar terrain. These images could easily grace an art museum....Ansel Adams would have been proud if he took these photos himself. My only criticism is the choices of some of the photos....I would have chosen different ones in many cases. The worst example is that there are not one, but four, photos of a nondescript lunar crater called Timocharis taken from lunar orbit. Why not the spectacular shots of Copernicus and Tsychiovsky instead? However, these are small criticismsof a superb book. Clear off a space on your coffee table, this book deserves an honored place there.
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Summary: Closer to Half Moon, I'm sorry to say...
Review: As a lifelong "space cadet" (i.e., astronaut wannabe who never will), I looked forward to this book after reading about it in a recent New Yorker story about the renovated planetarium in NYC. I was somewhat disappointed, for several reasons: (1) several pictures were blurred (absolutely inexcusable for this kind of project, and incomprehensible with so many 1000s of pictures to choose from); (2) too much black space (i.e., empty black pages that - even allowing for the aesthetics of leaving a page blank so as to focus on a single picture - left me with the feeling of too much wasted space that could've been used for fabulous pictures; (3) not enough pictures we hadn't seen before, and too many we had; (4) too many moon detail shots that began to look like one another; (5) and digitization of many photos made them look artificial. Having said that, there were 3-4, maybe 5, absolutely stunning shots of the earth that just take your breath away (not the usual "Earthrise" ones - closer in). For those of you who love space photos, NASA has audio-visual units that sell copies to average citizens (of course, we HAVE paid for them already, in a manner of speaking, but they're wonderful for a personal collection). If you're in DC, you can just stop in at NASA HQ and peruse from a selection of 100s/1000s. I suspect other NASA facilities may do the same.
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Summary: Astronauts As Outstanding Photographers? Who Knew!
Review: I have read most of the books about manned space flight published to date. Although several of these books are outstanding, and provide an in-depth perspective that can only be expressed through the written word, none of them gives me the virtual moon-trip experience that this beautifully constructed book does.It's not just a book of beautiful photographs (and they are beautiful). There is appropriate text that accompanies the photos in a separate section. The very large photos are printed with NO text on the page to detract from the scenes displayed. Descriptive text is provided at the end of the book along with accompanying thumb-nail prints of the photos. Whatever NASA invested in educating the astronauts in photography paid-off. I'd love to see more!
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Summary: 32000 Pictures?
Review: The Apollo missions yielded over 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs of man's journey to the moon and back. Where are they? I can't believe these pictures are the best NASA has to offer. For those of you with high expectations, save your money. This book is a serious letdown.
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Summary: Wonderful, but poorly linked
Review: This fine book, while quite wonderful,has been done a dis-service by it's presenters by failing to provide a link to the very best of all moon information books: THE MOON BOOK by Kim Long (ISBN 1-55566-230-7)
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Summary: Wow
Review: The picture number 78 is worth the price of the book. I worked on the Apollo program, however, NASA never shared these images with any of us.
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Summary: The last chance to visit the moon (without a space ship...)
Review: Breath taking photos, will let you dream to become an astronaut as you see the sublime manner of mankind walking on the Moon... 'Some may say...' Outstanding!
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Summary: Absolutely Stunning!
Review: Who cares about words with a book like this! Full Moon is the greatest book ever and it has no text at all (except for the author, copywrite, et cetera...) Michael Light chose the most fascinating pictures of the history of our moon and told the most accurate history of the moon through it, better than any other book could. Every photograph in this book takes a lifetime to look at. And as someone else said, "If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this book would take a lifetime to read." Very true. Buy this book ASAP and cherish it forever!
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Summary: Breathtaking!
Review: The most incredible images I have ever seen. This book is truely a MUST have.
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Summary: The images of the 20th Century.
Review: Yes, Michael Light could have chosen better known photgraphs. Yes, Michael Light could have supplied NASA Index numbers for each photo. Yes, Michael Light could have done many things differently. What Michael Light has produced is one of the most stunning collections of photographs I have ever seen in a single volume. I have sat looking at these images and found it hard to drag myself away. The stark monochromatic beauty of the moon together with the fragile humanity embodied in the astronauts has been exposed in a way I have never seen before. I cannot understand why NASA has never made better use of its image library in bringing to the attention of the public its space program. If a picture paints a thousand words then this volume would take a lifetime to read.
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