Bartos, Adam.

Kosmos : a portrait of the Russian space age / photographs by Adam Bartos ; with an essay by Svetlana Boym.

1st ed.

New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2001.

176 pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm

The inherent contradictions of the Space 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's fascination 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.
Kosmos presents 94 of Bartos's photographs, rich with the incongruities of the history, science, culture, and politics of the Space Age.

1568983085
9781568983080

Astronautics Russia History Sources.
Astronautics Soviet Union Pictorial works.
Astronautics Soviet Union History Sources.
Aerospace engineers Soviet Union Portraits.
Launch complexes (Astronautics) Soviet Union Pictorial works.
Photography, Industrial.
Space photography Soviet Union History.
Astronautique Russie Histoire Sources.
Ingénieurs en aérospatiale URSS Portraits.
Ensembles de lancement (Astronautique) URSS Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie industrielle.
Photographie spatiale URSS Histoire.
industrial photography.
Space photography.
Aerospace engineers.
Astronautics.
Launch complexes (Astronautics)
Ruimtevaart.
Russia.
Soviet Union.

Photography, Industrial.
History.
Pictorial works.
Portraits.
Sources.
Photography, Artistic.

Boym, Svetlana, 1959-2015.

Location: Library main 265339
Call No.: BIB 196798
Status: Available