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Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age

Door Adam Bartos

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#329643-AD21
Titel	Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age
Auteur	Bartos, Adam (photographs) & Svetlana Boym (essay)
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Princeton Architectural Press
Jaar van uitgave	2001
ISBN10	1568983085
ISBN13	9781568983080
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original silver lettered brown cloth, dust jacket, oblong, circa 25x29cm, profusely illustrated with colour photographs.
Samenvatting	The Space Race was an exhilirating moment in history, alternately frighten-ing, thrilling, awe-inspiring, and ultimately, sublime. Its most enigmatic element was the competition. The Soviets seemed less technologically sophisticated (at least from the American perspective) but in fact won many of the races: first satellite to orbit the earth; first man in space; first unmanned landings on Mars, Venus, and the Moon; first woman in space; most powerful rockets; and, until its recent fiery death, the most long-lived space station to name but a few. The inherent contradictions of the age--the mixture of technologies high and low, of nostalgia and progress, of pathos and promise--are revealed in Kosmos, Adam Bartos's astonishing photographic survey of the Soviet space program. Bartos' fascinati... (Lees verder)on with this subject led him to seek out places like the bedroom where Yuri Gagarian slept the night before his history-making flight into space, located in the Baiknour Cosmodrome, the one-time top-secret space complex in the Kazakh desert. Bartos also takes us inside the cockpit of the Merkur space capsule, used to ferry crew members and supplies to the super-secret Almaz orbital space stations, and behind the changing screens cosmonauts used before being fitted for their space suits at Zvezda, the chief manufacturer of Soviet life-support systems. In total, Kosmos presents over 100 of Bartos's photographs, rich with the incongruities of the history, science, culture, and politics of the Space Age. Professor Svetlana Boym's insightful introduction to the technological and cultural aspects of Soviet space exploration provides a fitting context for the photographs. For anyone interested in the space age, Kosmos is an essential and fascinating portrait.
Pagina's	176
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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