The Afronauts by Middel (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition, First Printing. 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.

Tapa Blanda. Condition: New. 4ª Edición. Cuarta edición del fotolibro "Los Afronautas" de Cristina de Middel.En 1964, un profesor de ciencias zambiano llamado Edwuard Makuka decidió entrenar a la primera tripulación africana que viajaría a la Luna. Su plan era usar un cohete de aluminio para enviar a una mujer, dos gatos y un misionero al espacio. Primero a la Luna, luego a Marte, utilizando un sistema de catapulta. Fundó la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Investigación Espacial e Investigación Astronómica de Zambia para comenzar a entrenar a sus Afronautas en su sede, ubicada a solo 32 kilómetros de Lusaka.Este libro autoeditado fue finalista del premio Paris Photo Aperture First Book en 2012, del premio Deutsche Börse y obtuvo el premio Infinity del ICP de Nueva York ese mismo año. Ocupó el puesto número 18 en la lista de los mejores fotolibros de todos los tiempos de la revista Source. Libro, Book, Buch. Livre.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Second Edition. SIGNED COPY - This Book Is True, Bilbao, Spain, 2016. Hardcover in stiff flexi boards. 88 pp. Small quarto (6¾ x 9¼ in. 17.5 x 23.5 cm) Unnumbered edition of 1500 copies. Numerous color and black-and white photos, illustrations and reproductions of 'ephemera'. SIGNED by Cristina de Middel. BOOK CONDITION: New/Fine. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Signed on inside cover. New and unread Hardcover in stiff flexi boards. Stitched folios with inserts and vellum, illustrations and photos. Clasped with heavy yellow rubber band. 2nd edition published by de Middle in 2016. Few new, signed copies remain. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: New. Description: 6"x 6" limited edition Fuji Crystal Archival Matte paper print. Image size is 5.5" on the longest side and the paper size is 6" x 6". The Print is SIGNED by Michael Cristina De Middel on the verso.Condition: Brand New/Mint.The prints were issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition (limited to the number of prints purchased during the days in which the sale was open to the public). They were then carefully printed to the highest standards and signed by the photographers. As such, these are sure to become highly collectible photographs given the provenance linking them directly to the Magnum collective and each of the photographers who chose to participate in the event.

Condition: New. Description: 6"x 6" limited edition Fuji Crystal Archival Matte paper print. Image size is 5.5" on the longest side and the paper size is 6" x 6". The Print is SIGNED by Cristina de Middel on the verso.Condition: Brand New/Mint.The prints were issued in an un-numbered Limited Edition (limited to the number of prints purchased during the days in which the sale was open to the public). They were then carefully printed to the highest standards and signed by the photographers. As such, these are sure to become highly collectible photographs given the provenance linking them directly to the Magnum collective and each of the photographers who chose to participate in the event.