This culmination of a fascinating seven-year photographic journey takes viewers through the countries and enclaves once held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet empire. Now each region is on its own in a chaotic political environment, sometimes without diplomatic recognition from neighbors, much less the international community. Abkhazia, an unrecognized country on the Black Sea, was once the natural pearl of the empire, where bellicose generals and productive factory managers came to relax. ...
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This culmination of a fascinating seven-year photographic journey takes viewers through the countries and enclaves once held in orbit by the immense gravity of Moscow, the nucleus of the Soviet empire. Now each region is on its own in a chaotic political environment, sometimes without diplomatic recognition from neighbors, much less the international community. Abkhazia, an unrecognized country on the Black Sea, was once the natural pearl of the empire, where bellicose generals and productive factory managers came to relax. The spacecraft crash zones between Russia and Kazakhstan reveal a Soviet-inflected version of the entrepreneurial spirit. In Transdniester, a breakaway region of Moldova that survives by functioning as a giant black market for illicit traffic in all manner of goods, from leftover Soviet munitions to bootlegged booze, Bendiksen was expelled on the grounds that he was a "protagonist in an international spy ring." These 62 hauntingly beautiful and often arresting color photographs unsentimentally reveal the often grim circumstances in these half-forgotten regions, uniformly poor and polluted, and often politically unstable. We may not hear much about them today, but we will certainly hear more as the fall of the Iron Curtain continues to reverberate throughout the region.
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Very Good; Hardcover; First Printing; Number line, Äú10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"; Light wear to the covers; Few minor blemishes to the black coating on the top textblock edge; Light erasure marks to the top right corner of the first endpaper, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Photo illustration to the cover with title in black and white lettering; 2006, Aperture Publishing; 152 pages; "Jonas Bendiksen: Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union, " by Jonas Bendiksen.
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** Gift inscription signed by Jonas Bendiksen and written in gold ink to the first endpaper **; Good++; Hardcover; First Printing; Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; Clean covers with minor edgewear; There are a few scuffs to the black coating on the textblock edges; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 1.7 lbs; Photo illustration to the cover with title in black and white lettering; 2006, Aperture Publishing; 152 pages; "Jonas Bendiksen: Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union, " by Jonas Bendiksen.
