Nasa. The space shuttle ATLANTIS (Mission STS-76) appears behind a large cloud of smoke, outlined by the powerful light of the jet engines spewing out a deluge of fire. The dramatic photographic theater of the scene here defines a photographic painting whose genre is found only in the spectacular photography of spacecraft lift-off. March 1996. Vintage chromogenic print on KODAK paper. NASA logo and typed caption on back. 20.2 x 25cm with margins.

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