"SPACE UTOPIA. A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF SPACE EXPLORATION" par Vincent FOURNIER. Editions Rizzoli, Milan & Noeve, Paris. 2019. Imprimé en Italie. in-4, couverture toilée grise, titre doré estampé, photo sur le premier plat. Pages de garde illustrées. 184 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de 101 reproductions photographiques couleurs, pleine page dont 55 en double page, par Vincent Fournier. . "Space explocation is humanity's great adventure, a Leap into the unknown, towards a dark light, beyond Earth's protective atmosphere and the gravity that keeps us here. Space represents the universal desire not only to contemplate the sky, but also to fall into the void. Desire, from the Latin word desiderare, means regret and nostalgia for a Lost star. But how can we desire something that we don't know? Could it be that the stardust that we are made of somehow reminds us of the primordial time in which we floated in space? If so, men would then be like gods fallen from heaven, nostalgic and unconscious of this star that they lost? My aesthetic, philosophical and recreational fascination for the space adventure undoubtedly comes from the pictures and books I saw and read in the 1970s and '80s - movies, television series, science-fiction novels, documentaries, and news reports - that have mixed and superimposed in my memory like a palimpsest. My images are a mix of purely documentary elements and very carefully constructed staging in which each detail depends on the overall composition. Space exploration's emblematic locations are like cinema sets where Tintin might meet with Jules Verne in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey..." . Apollo 8 Firing Room, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 2011. . #SpaceUtopia #AJourneyThroughTheHistoryOfSpaceExploration #VincerFournier #livrephoto #photobook #2019 #espace #space #ExplorationSpaciale #ExplorationDeLEspace #SpaceExploration #PhotoParVincerFournier #PhotoByVincerFournier #Apollo8FiringRoom #Apollo8 #FiringRoom #JohnFKennedySpaceCenter #Florida #2011