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In November of 1969, Apollo 12 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] astronaut-photograph er Charles "Pete" Conrad [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's [ http://www.alanbean…] lunar soil collection activities on the Oceanus Procellarum [ http://volcano.und.…lunar/mare/mlm.html ]. The image is dramatic and stark [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. The harsh environment of the Moon's Ocean of Storms is echoed in Bean's helmet, a perfectly composed reflection [ http://mirrorprojec…] of Conrad and the lunar horizon [ http://www.hq.nasa.…]. Is it art? Works of photojournalists originally intent on recording the human condition on planet Earth, such as Lewis W. Hine's [ http://www.geh.org/…index.html ] images from New York City in the early 20th century, or Margaret Bourke-White's [ http://lkwdpl.org/w…] magazine photography are widely regarded as art. Similarly many documentary astronomy and space images [ http://photojournal…] can be appreciated for their artistic and esthetic appeal [ http://heritage.sts…].
