The first photograph of a human being in outer space: Ed White over Hawaii during the first US spacewalk, James McDivitt [Gemini IV], 3-7 June 1965.
James McDivitt took this extraordinary photograph of Ed White floating freely in outer space from inside the Gemini capsule with a 70mm Hasselblad 500C NASA-modified camera loaded with Eastman Kodak Ektachrome film. It is the first of his extraordinary series of pictures immortalizing the first American EVA.
Numbered to upper margin ' NASA S-65-30431. Numbered to verso 'S-65-30431' with NASA MSC caption and 'A Kodak paper' watermarks.
Beautifully framed in our signature black gallery frame. Ready to hang.
Art is 10 W x 8 H in and Framed 24.5 W x 24.5 H.
Provenance | Marking the 50th anniversary of the last human voyage to the moon, Wright and LAMA Auction Houses presented One Giant Leap for Mankind: Vintage Photographs from the Victor Martin-Malburet Collection, Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Project Apollo (1961–1972), an auction that took place in Chicago on October 28th, 2022. This stunning collection comprises more than 300 original historic photographs from Project Apollo, the NASA program responsible for placing the first humans on the surface of the moon. Meticulously researched and collected over the course of 25 years by Victor Martin-Malburet, each image represents extraordinary feats of human exploration, imagination, and collaboration, and many of those being offered have never been published.
James McDivitt
Printed 1965
Art is 10 W x 8 H in and Framed 24.5 W x 24.5 H.
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper
Good condition. Newly framed.
$225 in the U.S.
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