Man on the Moon: How a Photograph Made Anything Seem Possible

by Pamela Dell

Overview

It is a bizarrely beautiful image: A man in a spacesuit stands isolated in an alien world. His companion, the photographer, and their landing craft are reflected in his visor. This photograph, taken by Neil Armstrong of fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, is the most famous documentation of America’s 1969 moon landing. But to people in every country on Earth, it represented and still does so much more. The man in the photograph was hundreds of thousands of miles away from his home planet. He had conquered another world. It was, as Armstrong said, a giant leap for mankind. The photo of this historic event remains one of the most powerful and inspiring representations of the achievements of humankind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780756544478
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Series:	Captured History Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	166,665
Product dimensions:	9.25(w) x 10.25(h) x 0.19(d)
Lexile:	1050L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Pamela Dell began her professional career writing for adults and started writing for children about 12 years ago. Since then she has published fiction and nonfiction books, written numerous magazine articles, and created award-winning interactive multimedia.

Editorial Reviews

...an excellent resource to open a conversation with young people about how facts and photos can be interpreted in different ways by different people, how single photos can speak volumes, but also how they can be used and even manipulated by different groups to promote their own ends. It's also a great way to discuss photography as art.

The Planetary Society blog