U.S. Geological Survey and NASA, Surveyor III. Surface of the Moon, Day 319, W-F. 1967. Cut and stapled gelatin silver prints with ink and gouache on diazotype, 14 1/2 × 30 3/8" (36.9 × 77.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. John Parkinson III Fund

By collaging together individual photographs of small sections of the moon’s surface, the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA created this handcrafted topographical map two years before the first spaceflight landed, giving humans direct access to the moon.