Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum’s Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11 July 20–September 2, 2019
Cassandra C. Jones, Wax and Wane, 2008, single-channel video, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by Morris Weiner. © Cassandra C. Jones, 2018
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection. © The Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Garry Winogrand, Apollo 11 Moon Launch, Cape Kennedy, Florida, 1969, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
David Levinthal, Untitled, from the series Space, 2007, dye diffusion transfer print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of an anonymous donor. © David Levinthal
Hitoshi Nomura, ‘moon’ score, December 19, 1975, 1975, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund. © Hitoshi Nomura
William Elliott Debenham, E. G. Dalziel, Esq., 1870s–80s, albumen silver print from glass negative, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky.
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. To celebrate the 50th anniversary, the MFAH presents Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum’s Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11. The exhibition features images that range from documentary photographs of NASA’s mission to the moon, to fanciful pictures that include a 19th-century portrait of a man in a costume adorned with the sun, moon, and stars.
Among the notable works on view are Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and Garry Winogrand’s Apollo 11 Moon Launch, Cape Kennedy, Florida. Hitoshi Nomura’s ‘moon score,’ December 19, 1975 represents an intersection of Conceptual Art and stargazing. Also included are the re-creation by Cortis & Sonderegger of Buzz Aldrin’s first footprint on the moon, and a projection of Cassandra C. Jones’s Wax and Wane.
Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum’s Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11 | July 20–September 2, 2019
Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum’s Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11 is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.