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ADOLF VOIGT & HANS GIEBLER (active 1950s-2000s) An elegant series of 30 detailed photographs of the moon's surface on 10 panels, depicting the lunar phases from waning to waxing crescents. Each panel is a composite of 3 photographs. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 8x8 1/4 inches (20.3x21 cm.), the overall size of each suite of 3 prints is 21 1/2x8 1/4 inches (54.6x21 cm.), the original boards 26x14 1/8 inches (66x35.9 cm.). 1964-69
Adolf Voigt (1920-2007) was lecturer of photography at the Berlin Volkshochschule (People's College) and after 1950 at the Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte. From 1989 to 2006 Mr. Voigt was the head of the group Berliner Mondbeobachter (Berlin Moon Observer), founded in 1956. From 1964 to 1969 he photographed the moon in all phases at the 12-inch Bamberg-Refractor of the Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte in collaboration with Hans Giebler. For this purpose he built a special camera in the format 6x6 cm, which enabled the focal image of the entire moon.
