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[i]Part of that reason is that the crew weren't necessarily good photographers: they were, after all, pilots preoccupied with the challenge of getting to the Moon and back, and photography held a correspondingly low priority, particularly beyond the scientific and technical documentation of the Moon and their spacecraft. "Many shots, and especially those taken inside the spacecraft," Bizony writes, "are blurry, under-exposed, or so random in the choice of subject matter that they can only have resulted from the shutter button being pressed by accident." Bizony claims to have more images from the mission than any other "mass-market publication". And, as he warned, some of dozens of pictures in the book are blurry or poorly composed. Yet the images are fascinating and remarkable nonetheless: those technical imperfections make them all the more vivid and real, a reminder that they are documentation by astronauts who were only secondarily -- at best -- photographers.[/i]
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