Celebrating the Moon: from the dawn of photography through the present

A man looks at 'Atlas Photographique de la lune' (1894-1908) by Maurice Loewy and Pierre Henri Puiseux, part of a new exhibition called 'Apollo's Muse: The Moon In The Age Of Photography' by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo: AFP

Some 400 years of depictions of the Moon, particularly via photography, are going on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

The Met will unveil its Apollo's Muse: The Moon In The Age Of Photography on July 3, approximately two weeks before of the five-decade mark since the 1969 space trip that landed the first two people on Earth's satellite.