Timeline for Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
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| Nov 19, 2020 at 6:12 | comment | added | Michael C | Note also that Neil Armstrong did not consider the well-known photo he took of Buzz Aldrin that has a very small reflection of himself in Buzz's visor to be a photo of himself. Long after he saw the prints of that photo shortly after returning from the Apollo 11 mission he made numerous statements to the effect that there were no photos of him on the Moon's surface during the EVA. Only in 1987 when it was conclusively established that the one described since that time as "The Only Photo of Neil Armstrong on the Moon" did Armstrong stop saying he wasn't in any photos taken of the first moonwalk | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 13:38 | comment | added | user2705196 | Thanks, I have updated the answer. | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 13:37 | history | edited | user2705196 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 16, 2020 at 1:07 | comment | added | Michael C | Your answer seems to indicate that you place importance on the intent of the photo... "This is the only high resolution photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon, in which he is the subject of the photograph and the moon can be seen." He wasn't really the subject of that photograph, the Moonscape around the Apollo landing site was. | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 0:22 | comment | added | user2705196 | Is it important what the original plan was? I thought the question was about what's in this photograph and whether it's the only one of its kind. But I agree, I shouldn't have said that Armstrong was the subject of the photograph. I should have written "is clearly visible" instead. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 23:12 | comment | added | Michael C | Except in this case Neil Armstrong was not the intended subject of this photograph, which is cropped from the original negative. It was part of a series of shots planned before the mission for the purpose of constructing a panorama of the Moon's features around Tranquility Base. The fact that Armstrong was in one of the frames was purely coincidental. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 18:48 | comment | added | user2705196 | An interesting question is what is special about this print? Obviously, one can make many prints of the same photograph, and arguably what is special about this photo is the print provenance and not just the subject. I can order a high quality print poster of this on the internet for a few dollars. But that's not what Christie's are auctioning off. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 18:38 | history | answered | user2705196 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |