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Critically Acclaimed: Experts Top 14 Photobooks of 2016 - Selection by an international panel of Photobook Experts

In another banner year for photobook publishing, here are 14 remarkable publications that were selected by a wide-ranging group of photography experts from around the world

The Story of the Grand Collective Project That Launched Yuri Gagarin Into Space

The Story of the Grand Collective Project That Launched Yuri Gagarin Into Space 13/04/2021 A mural depicting Yuri Gagarin, created by Jorit in Odintsovo, Russia, August 2019. Photo: Jorit When I used to live in Paris, I took the Metro to the end of the line one day and spent an afternoon wandering between Ivry and Villejuif. The area may not be as picturesque as the tourist zones of central Paris, but it has its own memorable spots, like the Yuri Gagarin Aquatic Stadium with its Olympic-length pool, perched at the intersection between Karl Marx Avenue and Yuri Gagarin Street. Ivry-sur-Seine, a Communist stronghold since the 1920s, was then also the location of a housing complex called Cité Gagarine, inaugurated by the man himself during a visit to France in 1963. The municipal government knocked it down in 2019, having put up posters for the demolition that bore the message “Good Bye Gagarine” in English with Soviet-style lettering. You could hardly blame the�

From wood cabin to orbiting Earth: How Yuri Gagarin s improbable journey into space defined a decade, but nearly ended in disaster — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union

From wood cabin to orbiting Earth: How Yuri Gagarin s improbable journey into space defined a decade, but nearly ended in disaster — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
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Yuri Gagarin became the first man to take the road to the stars 60 years ago

© Shutterstock Yuri Gagarin became the first person to go into space in 1961. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up He was born into a working-class family; the son of a farmer and carpenter, Alexei, and a dairy maid, Anna, who welcomed visits from his uncle Pavel Ivanovich as the pair gazed up at the sky and talked about the blue yonder. Even in the mid-1940s, aged 11, Yuri Gagarin was among the many youngsters across the world who dreamt of going boldly into the stratosphere.

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