Petr Ginz, Moon Landscape
Petr Ginz, Moon Landscape, looking at Earth from the Moon,1942 In January 2003 the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated killing 7 astronauts, among them Israeli Colonel Ilan Ramon, who carried a picture by Petr Ginz entitled Moon Landscape. Petr created his vision of what the earth would look like from the moon in 1942, shortly before he was incarcerated in Theresienstadt concentration camp. The actual 1968 photograph was remarkably similar. President Bush mentioned Ginz’s na