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

exaMINING the ICONIC aND reDISCOVerING the phOtOGraphY Of 327
SpaCe expLOratION IN CONtext tO the hIStOrY Of phOtOGraphY
Eugene Cernan’s EVA from GT9: June 1966. (NASA)
convincingly staged photographs of Ivan and his dog Kloka in their historical
eVa from the fight of Soyuz 2. the photographs are reminiscent of (mid­
1960s) eVa’s by, among others, the american astronaut ed White on Gemini
4 and eugene Cernan on Gemini 9.
another example of the appropriation of space exploration photography
by members of the fne arts community is the conceptual piece, The Apollo
Prophecies. 76 On frst blush, its title would suggest yet another assertion that the
apollo trips to the Moon were staged on vast sound sets (such as those used in the
making of the hbO series “from the earth to the Moon.”) While that television
series was staged to recreate some of the actual historical events of apollo,
76. Nicholas Kahn and richard Selesnick, The Apollo Prophecies (New York, NY: aperture
foundation, 2006).