Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl

Gottingen, Germany : Steidl, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Polidori, Robert . Presumed first printing of the stated first edition, 2003. Printed by Steidl and presumed bound in Germany. Oblong, 12 x 15 inches. Gray buckram hardboards, with block lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. 109 numbered pages, with numerous full-page, full-color photo-plates. The photos were taken June 6 - 9, 2001. An immensely clean book, inside and out. No demerits observed. Almost certainly unread. With a beautiful, fully illustrated dust jacket. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ. 4 lbs. 3 oz. weight. A powerful book of color photographs taken by Polidori fifteen years after the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Features text by Elizabeth Culbert. Includes numerous images of the towns Pripyat and Chernobyl. Robert Polidori is a Canadian-American photographer known for his large-scale color images of architecture, urban environments and interiors. From the library of Marshall Winokur [1942-2022]. He was a recognized collector of books and postcards on Russia and the Soviet Union. His research on Russian culture and the fate of Russian Orthodox churches, convents and monasteries under the Soviet regime led to numerous publications, fellowships, and talks, and found expression in his collection of over 25,000 postcards depicting life in the Russian Empire, a collection now available at the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (the Winokur-Munblit collection of the Russian Empire postcards).