VIENNA, AUSTRIA – news aktuell – September 15, 2023 – In the online auction
The Beauty of Space – Iconic Photographs from NASA’s Early Missionswhich ends on September 27, 2023, the Austrian auction house Dorotheum offers around 200 historical photographs from the American space agency NASA, dating from the start of human spaceflight in the early 1960s to the mid-1970s. A selection of vintage prints collected over a period of 25 years by French space historian and art collector Victor Martin-Malburet can be purchased at auction – with attractive opening prices, starting from 100 euros, and without reserve.
Buzz Aldrin’s Gold-Plated Sunshade Reflects the Photographer and the LM Eagle, Vintage Chromogenic Print on Fiber-Based Paper, Printed 1969 (NASA AS11-40-5903), 8″ x 10″ DOROTHEUM
The color and black and white photographs were originally taken for scientific purposes and most of them were kept under lock and key. The auction includes important visual treasures from the golden age of astronautics, such as the first space selfie, the first photograph of planet Earth taken by a human and the first photograph taken by a human of the surface of another world. An absolute rarity, estimated at between 15,000 and 25,000 euros, is the unique photograph of the first man on the Moon (Neil Armstrong) taken by astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the first moon landing of the APOLLO 11 mission in July 1969.
The first selfie in space, November 11 – 15, 1966, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed in 1966, numbered “NASA S-66-62926” 20.3 x 25.4 cm DOROTHEUM
Parts of the Martin-Malburet collection have already been exhibited in renowned museums around the world, including the Grand Palais in Paris, the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark.
Consult the online catalog
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/a/99412/
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