The Moon
My photograph, Moon Rising, 12:29am, is part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “The Moon”, exhibition. On display from Septeber 27, 2009 to January 10th, 2010. http://www.mfah.org/moon/
Details about the exhibit from the MFAH:
In a dazzling presentation that weaves together art and science, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents The Moon: “Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed,” an exhibition that chronicles mankind’s enduring fascination with Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor over five centuries. Marking the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing in 1969, the exhibition includes moonlit landscapes by the Old Masters and the Impressionists; Ansel Adams’s iconic Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico; shots famously taken on the moon by the crew of Apollo 11; and recent images created by exposing photographic paper to the movement of the moon itself. Charting the path of scientists, along with that of artists, in their efforts to explore the moon, the exhibition also presents early scientific documents and instruments, including a 17th-century telescope and one of Galileo’s first treatises.
The exhibition was developed by Andreas Blühm, director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Germany, and is presented in Houston in an expanded version under the direction of the MFAH’s associate curator of European art, Helga Aurisch.
The title of the exhibition’s presentation in Houston is taken from the now-famous first words that Commander Neil Armstrong broadcast to Mission Control, after Apollo 11 landed on the moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969: “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
By changing the call signal to Tranquility Base, the landing site, Armstrong informed his colleagues back on Earth that the landing craft had set down on the moon.
This exhibition was originally conceived by the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation
Corboud, Cologne, Germany. In Houston, the exhibition receives generous funding
from Mrs. Linda K. Finger. Major corporate support is provided by Boeing. Additional
support is provided by the William Stamps Farish Fund, Mr. James E. Maloney,
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Reckling III, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Flores, the Hildebrand Fund,
Martha Katherine Long, and Mr. and Mrs. Melvyn L. Wolff.