Brothers of the Cosmos

1969

Not on view

This personal album, assembled by a cinematographer hired to document cosmonaut training, offers an intimate view of the triumphant visual culture surrounding the Soviet space program of the 1960s. Under the direction of the pioneering rocket engineer Sergei Korolev, the Soviet program achieved a string of headline-making “firsts” in early years of the space race. They were the first to send into orbit an earthborn creature (the canine cosmonaut Laika in 1957), a man (Yuri Gagarin in 1961), and a woman (Valentina Tereshkova in 1963). These and other Soviet space pioneers appear in the pages of this meticulously assembled album, accompanied by handwritten inscriptions on each page identifying the subjects and dates of the images.

Artwork Details

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Exhibition History

Title: Brothers of the Cosmos
Artist: V. M. Baturin (Russian, active 1960s)
Date: 1969
Medium: Gelatin silver prints with ink annotations
Dimensions: Each sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 13/16 in. (24 × 32.5 cm)
Classifications: Albums, Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2019
Object Number: 2019.393.1–.40
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring images of Valentina Tereshkova, 1963 [left];
Konstantin Feoktistov, Vladimir Komarov, and Boris Yegerov, 1964 [top right]; and Komarov with his son, 1964 [bottom right], all by Baturin and V. Zhiharekno, V. M. Baturin Russian, Gelatin silver prints — Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring images of Valentina Tereshkova, 1963 [left]; Konstantin Feoktistov, Vladimir Komarov, and Boris Yegerov, 1964 [top right]; and Komarov with his son, 1964 [bottom right], all by Baturin and V. Zhiharekno
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Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring a photomontage of Baturin with a camera and
cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, 1962, V. M. Baturin Russian, Gelatin silver prints and chromogenic print — Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring a photomontage of Baturin with a camera and cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, 1962
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Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring image of Yuri Gargarin in Parachute Training, 1960, by Baturin

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