First Man on the Moon
1969
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1969
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
First Man on the Moon is a 1969 by Paul Calle, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print by Paul Calle marks the moon landing in 1969. It’s a commemorative stamp, made from a plate that even flew on Apollo 11. A proof was canceled by an astronaut mid-flight, then the design stayed secret until released two months after the mission. Calle worked from his own sketches of the crew suiting up back on Earth. The stamp became one of the first items canceled in space. Check out more at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A rectangular perforated sheet in portrait format contains 32 landscape-format postage stamps printed in color, each depicting astronaut Neil Armstrong stepping onto the lunar surface with the lunar module and Earth visible above the horizon, accompanied by red and black lettering and a red logo in the top left corner of the sheet; the left side features a selvedge.
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Paul Calle made prints that captured space exploration in the late 1960s. He turned the Apollo 11 moon landing into the lithograph *First Man on the Moon*, freezing Neil Armstrong’s bootprint in ink. His work belongs to…
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