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SOURCE:
HASSELBLADRalph was a staff photographer for LIFE
magazine and he captured some of the most
pivotal events of the 20th century, from World
War II to the United States space program.
This image is from a new Taschen book
(www.taschen.com) by Norman Mailer called
MoonFire, 50th Anniversary Edition that
includes hundreds of iconic images of the
Apollo 11 journey sourced from NASA,
magazine archives and private collections.
Words & numbers
I fell in love with photography,
with wandering around
fi nding things
Alec Soth US photographer
200
The number of black & white
images which could be captured
by the fi lm magazine inside the
Hasselblad 500 EL camera used
by Apollo 11 (160 in colour).
See pages 40-45.