MOON SHOT
Ted Anthony wrote about his recollection of his father taking a picture of a TV image of mankind on the Moon.
I too have a recollection of taking a picture of our first step on the Moon with my Polaroid camera and waiting in anticipation for the film to develop itself.
Now much older I say thanks to Ted for helping me remember.
Maybe his article will help you all to feel the excitement too.
LRK.
Moon Shot
Gazing into a long-ago Polaroid taken by my father, and finding multitudes.
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Jun 18, 2016Darkness. Darkness all around. That’s what the lens captured. On the edges: a thick white photographic border that shouts early 1970s. Moving toward the middle, inky black ebbs into greenish gray and, finally, into a tableau captured in a ghostly bluish-white.
In it, you can make out a figure and beyond it, some machinery and a coarse, remote landscape, viewed as if through a rudimentary pinhole camera. Some horizontal lines, barely perceptible, suggest this may not be an image in itself but an image of an image, viewed through some kind of vacuum-tube alchemy. Something is out there, but we’re not certain what. H.G. Wells comes to mind — a collision of the modern and the ancient, of the sterile and the visceral, the as-yet-unnamed aesthetic of steampunk. The world seen through a glass, darkly.
It is not a very good photograph, at least in the way that we tend to judge such things. But it is an important one. It shows how detached and gossamer we human beings really are. It shows us as we embark upon a journey to become a society of watchers, separated by multiple layers of reality from the events that shape us.
And it shows that, in a manner of speaking, the camera that captured my childhood also went to the moon.
One forgotten day between 1969 and 1972, my father, approaching the end of his fifth decade on the third planet, raised his Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 230, pushed the red button in the top right corner and made a photograph.
A second or two afterward, he yanked it from the contraption by hand — a single piece of peel-away Polacolor pack film that required a minute’s wait before you pulled it apart to expose the quickly coalescing image.
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If you found Ted’s article interesting you may find some of his other articles interesting as well.
Hopefully you will not mind if I reference some of them as as they make me smile.
LRK
Ted Anthony
Exploring and understanding storytelling and how it shapes our lives.
My tools: Words, images, thoughts, memories, connections, history ... and, maybe, wisdom.
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