#The moon atlas of the moon loewy update#

Under supervision of the astronomer Kuiper the best moon photos worldwide were assembled. The photographic Moon atlas remained a reference until 1970 when NASA needed a more detailed and more up-to-date Moon atlas to determine possible landing sites for the Apollo flights. This is a unique opportunity to view these photographs outside of a museum. The photographic Moon atlas of Puiseux, Loewy and le Morvan has become very rare. The Atlas was completed based upon unpublished images. This is an addition to the 'Atlas Photographique de la Lune' of 1905. In the exhibition we have the 'Carte Photographique de la Lune' of 1914. A refractor with a diameter of 74cm and a focal distance of 15 meters! For this time and age a huge telescope of 6.000 kg.

The takes were made with the special Coudé refractor of the Observatoire de Paris. It took 15 years because only under exceptionally good circumstances ('seeing') the moon could be photographed. Between 18, about 500 observation nights and over a 1000 takes later the map of the Moon was published in Heliogravure. Moritz Loewy (1833-1907) and Pierre-Henri Puiseux (1855-1928) supported by Charles le Morvan (1865-1933) started this ambitious project in 1880. The idea for a detailed photographical map of the Moon was launched in 1887 in Paris.

- Bruno Vermeersch: Misleading seductionĬarte Photographique et Systématique de la Lune.

- Surrealist Photography: Liberating expression.

- Alexis Delcroix, photographer of the modern.

- Raoul Haussmann, Dadaist and photographer.

- Marcel Vanderkindere pictorialist photographer.

- In the beginning there was only the light of the stars.

#The moon atlas of the moon loewy update#

- Collector’s Room Update #2: Reinventing the World.- Georges Thiry, friend of the surrealists.- Vision? Interpretation? Intervention?.- Deep Sky or the photography of the invisible.- City night or homage to the artificial light.* Puiseux & Loewy, historical photographic moon atlas.- Selenography or the history of the Moon.- The Pictorialist collection of AnamorFose.

- Novita, A Catalogue of the human body as an object.

- Victor Guidalevitch, Belgian Modernist.- Charles Gaspar, Belgian Pictorialist?.- Fernand Dumeunier, master of the portrait.- Christoph Bruneel, bookmaker & restorer.- Roger Populaire, Quand vendrons-nous nos photos.

- Roger Populaire, Belgian Pictorialist and Modernist.

- Josef Désiré Massot, Portrait Photographer.

- Nikolaï Kossikoff, Industrial photographer.

- Les Maïtres de la Photographie, Léonard Misonne.

- Alfred Fauvarque-Omez, French Pictorialist.

- Léonard Misonne, Belgian Master of Pictorialism.