(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

[David Stockhoff]

Jeff, no one said pulp covers were more inspirational than photos.

But if you eliminate Apollo 11 photos and Alan Bean, what's left?

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 6/30/2010 9:24 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> It occurred to me that Wolfe may have been inspired by an SF magazine
>> cover rather than by a painting. I searched The Magazine of Fantasy and
>> Science Fiction and found a similar image:
>>
>> http://www.philsp.com/data/images/f/fantasy_and_science_fiction_197702.jpg 
>>
>>
>> At least it has the gold faceplate and earth. Maybe Rudesind's painting
>> is a composite?
>
> If it's a composite, it could be a composite of anything, and I think 
> it's a bit of a knock to say the pulp covers are more inspirational 
> than actual pictures of actual spacemen on the moon.
>
> A while back, we eliminated all of the then-recently released archive 
> of Apollo 11 surface photography, as well as all of Alan Bean's work 
> of an age to have been influential on BoTNS. If the paining is 
> intended to be an original  painting and not a portraitized 
> photograph, it is likely that the combination of details became 
> traditional at some point when some painter deviated from the strictly 
> historical but was well received nonetheless, like wozzname conflating 
> Cupid with cherubim.
>