Selene's Two Faces

Carmen Pérez González, Ph.D. (2010), Leiden University, is lecturer-researcher at Bergische Universität Wuppertal (IZWT). She has published a book, Local Portraiture: Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers (Leiden University Press, 2012), an exhibition catalogue, and many articles.

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Introduction: On the Visible, the Invisible, Presences and Absences in Lunar Portraiture

 Carmen Pérez González



1 One World is not Enough: Remarks on the History of Selenography

 Pedro M.P. Raposo



2 Mapping Time Rather than Mapping Space: The Moon in Persian Astronomy during the Naseri Period (1848-1896)

 Carmen Pérez González



3 Japanese Lunar Drawings, Maps and Photographs before the 1870s

 Tsuko Nakamura



4 Of Blurs, Maps and Portraits: Photography and the Moon

 Charlotte Bigg



5 James Nasmyth on the Moon: Or on Becoming a Lunar Being, without the Lunacy

 Omar W. Nasim



6 Karl Friedrich Küstner’s Moon Photographic Plates at Bonn Observatory

 Michael Geffert



7 The Digital Sky of Hamburg Observatory: Bringing Astro-photographic Plates from the 20th into the 21st Century

 Detlef Groote



8 From Astronomer-photographers to Astronaut-photographers: Close-up Detailed Observations Performed by Spacecraft and Manned Exploration of the Moon

 Pedro Ré and Carmen Pérez González



Chronology

 Pedro Ré and Carmen Pérez González



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