Afronauts [SIGNED - 2012 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING - WITH DRAWING OF A SPACESHIP]

de Middel, Cristina

ISBN 10: 8461585968 / ISBN 13: 9788461585960

Published by Self Published, 2012

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SIGNED COPY Self Published, 2012. Hardcover in stiff flexi boards. 88 pp. Small quarto (6¾ x 9¼ in. 17.5 x 23.5 cm) Unnumbered edition of 1000 copies. . Numerous color and black-and white photos, illustrations and reproductions of 'ephemera'. SIGNED by Cristina De Middel on verso of front cover with a drawing of a spaceship/penis. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a tight, bright, clean copy with the original rubber band book clasp (ass issued by the publisher). SIGNED In 1964, still leaving the dream of their recently gained independence, Zambia started a space program that would put the first african on the moon catching up the USA and the Soviet Union in the space race.Only a few optimists supported the project by Edward Makuka, the school teacher in charge of presenting the ambicious program and getting its necessary funding. But the financial aid never came, as the United Nations declined their support, and one of the astronauts , a 16 year old girl, got pregnant and had to quit.That is how the heroic iniciative turned into an exotic episode of the african history, surrounded by wars, violence, droughts and hunger.As a photojournalist I have always been attracted by the excentric lines of story-telling avoiding the same old subjects told in the same old ways.Now , with my personal projects, I respect the basis of the truth but allow myself to break the rules of veracity trying to push the audience into analyzing the patterns of the stories we consume as real.Afronauts is based on the documentation of an impossible dream that only lives in the pictures.I start from a real fact that took place 50 years ago and rebuild the documents adapting them to my personal imagery. Seller Inventory # 1480

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Title: Afronauts [SIGNED - 2012 1ST EDITION & 1ST ...

Publisher: Self Published

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition, First Printing.