Kosmos by Bartos Adam (21 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. 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' 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. 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. Open copy with light to mild wear, clean pages with tight binding, dust jacket is wrapped in complimentary Brodart protector.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Full number line.; 176 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Hardcover with rust colored cloth covers. Black illustrated Dj in protective cover. Filled with color photographs. 10x11.25 with 176 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Tight binding, sharp edges and corners, no markings. DJ has very slight wear and is in a plastic sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adam Bartos to the previous owner on the title page. 1st edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Quarto, 176 pages. In Near Fine condition lacking issued dust jacket. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with silver gilt titles on front board and spine, plus attached silver ribbon bookmark. Minimal wear to boards, with some extremely light scuffing visible on the lettering of the spine. Some fraying at the end of the ribbon bookmark. Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QC (ND-QC). 1402834. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. A portrait of the Russian space age.

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hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: new. ** Because of weight/size, this cannot ship internationally **.

4To Obl. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Signed. 176pp. Rust boards, silver lettering on spine and front board, unclipped jacket with clear mylar jacket protector. Text and photography is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are secure, textblock is square with pointed corners. Signed and inscribed by Bartos on title page. Minimal overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, faint edgeblush.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 176 pages. Illustrations (color). Essay by Svetlana Boym. Notes. Catalogue (picture identifications) on pages 101-109). Reference collection stamp on top edge. No other markings noted. DJ has noticeable sticker residue. The photographs in this work were taken between June 1995 and April 1999. Native New Yorker Adam Bartos has been photographing since he was a teenager and creates photographs suffused with a quiet calm. He cites William Eggleston--known for his intensely colored images of ordinary scenes--and the earlier photographers Timothy O'Sullivan and Carleton Watkins--both known for their unique documents of the changing American landscape--as primary influences, Bartos focuses on the contemporary landscape. Yet, in his images, time seems to stand still, lending them an aura of temporal dislocation. In the early 1970s he attended film school at New York University and began working with color photography. He was mentored independently by the photographer Evelyn Hofer, known for her serene and meticulous color compositions. Bartos published perhaps his best-known work--photographs illustrating the effects of time on the modernist United Nations building in New York after fifty years of use--in the book International Territory: The United Nations, 1945-95, 1995. In 2001 he published Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age, photographs of the "obsolescent future" of the Soviet space program. The Space Race was an exhilarating moment in history, alternately frightening, thrilling, awe-inspiring, and ultimately, sublime. Its most enigmatic element was the competition. The Soviets seemed less technologically sophisticated 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' 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. 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. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Adam Bartos (Photographer), and Deb Wood (Designer (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oblong cloth, 25cm., Inscribed by the photographer on the title page and laid in an invitation to opening and book signing. Dust jacket has a tear on the bottom right corner.

Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE. First Edition. SIGNED by Adam Bartos on the title page. 4to, color photo book. FINE in FINE DJ. Signed.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. As new.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 176 pages. 11-3/8 by 9-3/4. Photo reproductions depicting 'the invisible men and the secret masters behind the Soviet space exploration' -- from the essay. Images printed in color, one per page, sometimes recto only. Notes on the photos are cataloged in a 9-page section. First edition (first printing). Brown cloth bound with a silk bookmarker. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Minor edge wear. Inscribed on the title page by Bartos to a former Ford Foundation exec: 'with best wishes, Adam Bartos.'. 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' 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. 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. Signed By Author.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

dj. First Edition. First edition. Oblong hardcover. A fascinating and often intimate collection of color photographs of parts of the Soviet space program. Essay by Svetlana Boym. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Bartos and uncommon as such. Signed.

1st edition dust jacket Fine Quarto 176pp., col. pls., Stunning photographic account of the Russian Space programme.

First edition, number 2 of 20 signed copies with a signed print, inscribed by Bartos in black ink in title-page and with an autograph letter signed on Bartos's letterhead; oblong 4to (240 x 278 mm, 9½ x 11 in); colour photographs, essay by Svetlana Boym; navy printed endpapers, rust cloth-covered boards, titles in silver to spine and upper side, chromogenic print (242 x 350 mm, 9½ x 13¾ in) signed, numbered, and titled in black ink on verso, in a blue paper folder and housed together with the book in the publisher's lightly rubbed and faded cloth drop spine box, fine in a very good box; 176pp. One of 20 copies with a signed print, this copy inscribed by Bartos to Glenn Horowitz, thanking him for a beautiful exhibition and book launch. Bartos made these photographs of people and sites associated with the Soviet space program between June 1995 and April 1999.…