First edition of A New Refutation Of The Viking 4 Space Mission by Peter Mitchell. First impression. Medium format hardback in as new condition. Signed by the artist.
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Peter Mitchell’s groundbreaking show A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission was first presented at the Impressions Gallery of Photography York in November 1979, and more recently at Arles. 38 years overdue, the body of work was published as a book for the first time by RRB Photobooks.
In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4.
But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.
Peter Mitchell’s A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission features photos and portraits, taken in Leeds in the 1970s. The pictures show the traditional urban landscape presented on a background of space charts, the concept being that an alien has landed from Mars and is wandering around Leeds with a degree of surprise and puzzlement.
In the Earthly vernacular these photographs are of Nowheresville. Yet, for some people, they are the center of the universe. Usually they call it Home.2017
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