Michelle Stuart
in ‘Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
3 July – 22 September 2019
‘Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography’, 2021, exhibition view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
‘Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography’, 2021, exhibition view, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Courtesy: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michelle Stuart is included ‘Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view to the public from 3 July – 22 September 2019.
On July 20, 1969, half a billion viewers around the world watched as the first images of American astronauts on the moon were beamed back to the earth. The result of decades of technical innovation, this thrilling moment in the history of images radically expanded the limits of human vision.
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, ‘Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography’ surveys visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography through the present. In addition to photographs, the show features a selection of related drawings, prints, paintings, films, astronomical instruments, and cameras used by Apollo astronauts.