Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring a photomontage of Baturin with a camera andcosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, 1962
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. Until the mid-1960s, the Soviet Union appeared to be winning the space race. Under the direction of the pioneering rocket engineer Sergei Korolev, the program achieved a string of headline-making "firsts." 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 album's pages.
Artwork Details
- Title: Page from Brothers of the Cosmos, 1969, featuring a photomontage of Baturin with a camera andcosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev meeting Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, 1962
- Artist: V. M. Baturin (Russian, active 1960s)
- Person in Photograph: Person in photograph Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian, Kalinovka 1894–1971 Moscow)
- Person in Photograph: Person in photograph Pavel Popovich (Russian, 1930–2009)
- Person in Photograph: Person in photograph Andriyan Nikolayev (Russian, 1929–2004)
- Date: 1969
- Medium: Gelatin silver prints and chromogenic print
- Dimensions: 9 7/16 × 12 13/16 in. (24 × 32.5 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2019
- Object Number: 2019.393.27b
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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