Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

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Snapshot portraits of the Apollo 7 crew in fight: October 1968. (left
top) Donn Eisele, (left bottom) Wally Schirra (Cunningham/NASA),
(above) Walt Cunningham. (Schirra/NASA)
like ralph Morse, Otis Imboden and Jon Schneeberge revealed the early
years of space exploration that often revealed the “manners” of the men of
NaSa. 48 these photographers provided their (stylistic) interpretations of
astronaut training to the launchings of the atlas, titan and Saturn-apollo.
however, access to these photographers’ complete work is challenging because
it tends to be centralized within the news organization that they represented.
editorial photography made under contract by in-house photographers like
Morse, Imboden, and Schneeberge is essentially owned and copyrighted by the
magazine corporation, such as Time-Life and National Geographic.
Unlike access to NaSa’s public domain photographs, either in a fight
center’s archive or through its online Web portal, the decentralization of photographic
archives among news media outlets creates a major challenge for
48. Other signifcant wire service photographers that covered the early years of the american space
program were Jim Kerlin, russ Yoder, frank beattie, and hugo Wessels.