Sputnik
Joan Fontcuberta
€350.00
Joan Fontcuberta presents a series of photographs and archival documents that fabricate a fictional history of a Soviet cosmonaut's disappearance during a 1968 space mission.
Sputnik features a series of photographs, texts, documents, and other archival materials created by Joan Fontcuberta. The work explores a fictional history of the Soviet space program, specifically focusing on the supposed tragedy of a cosmonaut named Ivan Istochnikov, who supposedly disappeared in 1968 during a Soviet space mission. The book presents an ordered collection of images, including black and white photographs and color prints, alongside newspaper articles and books. This project was originally presented as an exhibition at the Fundación Arte y Tecnología in Madrid in 1997. Fontcuberta uses these fabricated artifacts to investigate the authenticity of photographic images and the construction of historical memory, exploring how facts and fictions can be sedimented onto used objects and records.
Bibliographic Details
| Author | Joan Fontcuberta |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Fundación Arte y Tecnología |
| Place of publication | Madrid |
| Year | 1997 |
| Edition | First edition |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9788489884007 |
| Collation | 240 pp. |
| Language | English, Spanish |
| Dimensions | 17 x 23 cm |
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