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...been shot on earth, it would hardly have been worth a first glance. Its composition was uninspired and its subject - a rough-surfaced grey rock lying on brownish grey, clumpy soil -was singularly dull. Yet it was a histor ic picture - a color photograph taken on the surface of the moon. The dis tinguished and prolific photographer: Surveyor...
...black-and-white television camera to swivel and tilt until it reflected the proper piece of lunar terrain into the cam era lens. By radioed signal, they start ed a filter wheel turning until a red filter was in front of the lens. Then they ordered the camera to photograph the scene. The procedure was repeated twice more, once with a green and finally with a blue filter...
Clad in his cumbersome space suit and connected to Gemini by a white, 25-ft. oxygen and communications cord, Cernan methodically began his work. He attached a rearview mirror to the docking bar near Gemini's nose so that Stafford could watch and photograph him through a forward-facing window while he maneuvered near the aft end of the craft. Just behind the hatch, he clamped a 16-mm. movie camera into place...
...thrown 40 no-hitters by the time he was 17. One day in 1960, he pitched Central Catholic High School to a 4-3 victory over South Hills Catholic High-collecting 18 strikeouts, batting a game-winning home run-and 20 big-league scouts posed for a group photograph in the stands. Sam signed with Cleveland for $77,000, spent five uneventful years bouncing back and forth between the minors and the Indians-uneventful except for his 41st and 42nd no-hitters against Spokane Indians and Salt Lake City of the Pacific Coast League...
Gauguin did not always rely on available models. The studio of Charles Spitz, then Tahiti's only professional photographer, supplied him with inspiration for his art. His Pape Moe (The Mysterious Water), which shows a Tahitian boy drinking from a mountain spring, was painted from a Spitz photo. In la Orana Maria, one of his best-known canvases, the Tahitian figures strike poses deriving entirely from a photograph of a Javanese-temple frieze that Gauguin had brought from Paris...