posted 08-23-2019 04:39 AM               

Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before.

Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception within an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s.

This book explores the origins and impact of astronaut still photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight first captured the imagination of people around the world. Photographs taken during those three historic programs are much admired and reprinted, but rarely seriously studied. This book suggests astronaut photography is particularly relevant to American culture based on how easily the images were shared through reproduction and circulation in a very visually oriented society. Space photography's impact at the crossroads of cultural studies, the history of exploration and technology, and public memory illuminates its continuing importance to American identity.

• Hardcover: 254 pages
  
• Purdue University Press (June 15, 2020)
  
• ISBN-10: 1557539316
  
• ISBN-13: 978-1557539311

posted 07-24-2020 05:28 PM               

Through Astronaut Eyes with Jennifer Levasseur

August 6, 2020; 10:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. BST / 4:00 p.m. CEST

Join Hasselblad for an online presentation by Jennifer K. Levasseur, Ph.D., author of "Through Astronaut Eyes: Photographing Early Human Spaceflight."" Recently published by Purdue University Press, the book explores the genesis and proliferation of still photography in space exploration, from its initial conception to documentary necessity as the space race propelled forward.

As a museum curator in the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., Levasseur has researched and written extensively on the images captured through space exploration and its massive impact on mainstream culture.

posted 09-10-2020 11:40 AM               

NASA History Virtual Brown Bag Talk: 'Through Astronaut Eyes: Photography from Early Human Spaceflight'

Please join us on Wednesday September 16, 2020, 12:00 p.m. Eastern time for our Virtual History Brown Bag talk: Jennifer Levasseur, "Through Astronaut Eyes: Photography from Early Human Spaceflight."

"Through Astronaut Eyes" presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before. Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception to an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s. Dr. Levasseur's book from Purdue University Press explores the origins and impact of astronaut handheld photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight most captured the American imagination.

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