Bieke Depoorter: Blinked Myself Awake (Non-mint)

Hardcover | 28 x 1.65 x 28 cm | 166 pp

Hannibal Publishers | 2024 | 9789464941579 

In recent years, photographer Bieke Depoorter developed an overriding interest in astronomy. She sought out amateur stargazers, visited state-of-the-art observatories and researched the history of the field. Gradually, it became clear that her interest in astronomy was linked to lost memories from her past. After all, the night sky is a kind of shared memory; the light of celestial bodies takes hundreds, thousands or millions of light-years to reach our eyes on earth.

In Blinked Myself Awake, photographer Bieke Depoorter explores the power and fragility of memory, the human desire for objectivity and the elusive nature of 'truth'. She does this by interweaving photographs of amateur and professional stargazers, diary-inspired texts and fragments of astronomical history, in which often-forgotten female astronomers play a role.

PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. Non-mint books are in less than 100% mint condition. They are all new books that are ex-display or warehouse marked with cosmetic imperfections - marks, spine creases or dents - in most cases to the covers and/or dust jackets.