The Apollo Prophecies
Language: English
Published by Aperture Foundation, New York, 2006
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since April 8, 2003
Condition: Used - Very good
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SIGNED. Quarto [26cm]. Publisher's pearlescent, blind stamped clamshell case contains the following items: - Accordian-fold double-sided tritone panorama between illustrated boards; in slipcase. Unfolds to a length of 19 feet. - Lenticular image displaying (depending on angle) either an astronaut from the Edwardian era or from the 1960's. Signed, numbered and dated by the authors. - 16pp staple-bound booklet with text depicting an imagined expedition of 1960s American astronauts. - DVD with 20 minute video depicting the above expedition. - Limitation page with brief description of items. Very mild scuffing to boards of panorama, else internal contents in Fine condition. Slipcase lightly scratched, and moderately bumped at extremities. This is number 148 in an edition of 250. 1960s American astronauts land on the moon, only to find that a lost mission of Edwardian astronauts has been awaiting their arrival. A playful questioning of the concept of scientific truth.
Seller Inventory # 64705
- Title
- The Apollo Prophecies
- Author
- Kahn, Nicholas; Richard Selesnick
- Publisher
- Aperture Foundation, New York
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1597110272
- ISBN 13
- 9781597110273
- Edition
- Limited Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Photography
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From the Back Cover
The Apollo Prophecy' depicts, in one extravagantly long duotone panorama, an imagined expedition of 1960s American astronauts. Landing on the moon, they discover a lost mission of Edwardian-era astronauts who greet them as long-awaited gods. By presenting wildly inventive staged photographs as evidence of events that never happened, 'The Apollo Prophecies' playfully questions to concept of historical truth. Part Jules Verne, part Stanley Kubrick, the panoramic moonscape literally unfolds in multiple episodes that intermingle artifacts from the fearless era of early-20th-century exploration with space age gadgetry.
Using digital photography, the artists combine real-life locations, miniature models, and full-scale props of their own devising to produce a dramatic narrative played out by space-suit-clad astronauts (and similarly clad monkeys and elephants). This is an Apollo lunar mission both dreamlike yet oddly familiar -- and utterly convincing.
Included in this ingenious package is a 12-page booklet with a mind-bending narrative illustrated with four-colour mixed-media drawings.
Limited Edition
In addition tot he trade edition, the limited edition (250, signed by the artists_ features a lenticular image created by the artists especially for this edition. Viewed from one angle, it reveals an astronaut from the Edwardian era, from the other angle it shows an astronaut from the 1960s. Accompanying the panorama is a 20-minute DVD documenting the lunar mission. Everything is presented in a space age plastic case.
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