Olga Kondakova

240 pp, profusely illustrated in color & b&w. Text in Russian, Spanish and English. This artist's book by Joan Fontcuberta was published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition presented by Madrid's Fundacion Arte y Tecnologia in conjunction with the Nii Sputnik (Foundation) in Moscow. It ostensibly presents in documents and photographs a fictionalized history of a failed 1968 Soyuz launch as part of the Soviet space program. the 1997 true first edition (cited on pages 169 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and page 41 of "From Fair to Fine 2").… (meer)