"Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley"

gelatin silber print mounted on cardboard

signed and numbered (pencil) on recto, titled (ink) and artist stamp on mount verso

After 38 years, Jeff Nixon did re-shoot one of the most popular pictures of Ansel Adams’ Moon and Half Dome (1960), after the Ansel Adams Gallery made him aware that the moon will shine again at the same position.
A striking proof that there is a direct link between analogue photography and reality. Like in an experiment Nixon proved the repeatability under the same conditions.The basis for this experiment is the lunar cycle or meton period. A period that is both 19 solar years and 235 lunar months long - the sun and moon are in front of the same stars in the sky. The moon is therefore in exactly the same place at the same time every 19 years as seen from Earth. The Meton cycle is a presumed calendar system established by the ancient Greek astronomers Euktemon and Meton in the fifth century BC.
(Fritz Simak and Christoph Fuchs)