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RobertB
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posted 11-03-2014 02:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RobertB   Click Here to Email RobertB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here's a Kickstarter that may interest us:
Abandoned in Place is a photography book exploring and documenting America's early space launch and research facilities.

The University of New Mexico Press has selected Abandoned In Place for publication. The project has completed the press's peer review process and has been approved for publication. The plan is for an 11 by 13" book with approximately 100 color photographs from the Abandoned in Place series. The introduction is provided by Bob Thall, photography professor at Columbia College in Chicago. Dr. Roger Launius, Associate Director of Collections and Curatorial Affairs at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, authored the foreword.

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posted 11-03-2014 03:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
How can we not support this?

Spoon
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posted 11-04-2014 10:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Spoon   Click Here to Email Spoon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Totally agree, so have done so myself. Thanks for the heads up.

Rick Mulheirn
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posted 11-08-2014 06:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rick Mulheirn   Click Here to Email Rick Mulheirn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I see the project has exceeded the $25,000 target for the publication of the book.

It may be me, but I have seen nothing that indicates when the book is likely to be published, its availability or likely price tag.

Can anybody answer those questions?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 11-08-2014 07:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
As part of his frequently asked questions on Kickstarter, Roland Miller writes:
The book will be available from the University of New Mexico Press sometime mid to late next year.
I don't see where he states the price, but he does note that one has been set by the press.

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posted 11-26-2014 08:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jimsz   Click Here to Email jimsz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Article on CNET
"Abandoned in Place," he said, was created almost by accident.

"I was consulting an environmental engineer from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station regarding the proper disposal of old photographic chemicals that had been found at a building the Air Force was renovating. He took me to see Launch Complex 19, the Gemini Program launch facility, and I knew instantly that I wanted to photograph this facility and others that were on Cape Canaveral," he explained of the project's genesis.

"In 1993, while preparing for an exhibit of Abandoned in Place at the Huntsville Alabama Museum of Art in Alabama, the curator asked if I would make some photographs at the NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center located there in Huntsville. I agreed, and I quickly realised I should photograph at other NASA and military facilities related to the space program."

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posted 11-19-2015 06:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cspg   Click Here to Email cspg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Abandoned in Place: Preserving America's Space History
by Roland Miller
Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "abandoned in place" indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty and unused in the wake of the early period of US space exploration. Now Roland Miller's color photographs document the NASA, Air Force, and Army facilities across the nation that once played a crucial role in the space race.

Rapidly succumbing to the elements and demolition, most of the blockhouses, launch towers, tunnels, test stands, and control rooms featured in Abandoned in Place are located at secure military or NASA facilities with little or no public access. Some have been repurposed, but over half of the facilities photographed no longer exist. The haunting images collected here impart artistic insight while preserving an important period in history.

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posted 03-16-2016 09:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here are several previews and reviews:
  • The New York Times
    Relics of the Space Age

    Nearly three decades ago, Roland Miller, a photographer, received a phone call asking for help in disposing of photography chemicals from an old office building at Cape Canaveral in Florida. When he went there, he was enchanted by the hulking masses of abandoned launch pads. Mr. Miller persuaded NASA and the Air Force to let him take pictures.

    Later, he traveled the country to photograph other relics like the catacomb-like passages, above, of the stands that held the Saturn 5 engines during test firings at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The photographs have now been collected in a book, "Abandoned in Place," published this month by the University of New Mexico Press.

  • The Space Review
    Review: Abandoned in Place

    A major focus of the book is the decay of launch sites at the Cape after NASA or the Air Force decommissioned them. Particularly powerful is a pair of photos taken of the erector at Launch Complex 19, used by the Titan II during the Gemini program. The first, taken in 1991, shows the erector resting on its side, showing some rust and fading paint but otherwise looking mostly intact. The second photo, taken in 2005 from the same angle, shows much greater degradation, with pieces falling apart.

  • Chicago Tribune
    Roland Miller publishes photography book on abandoned space launch sites

    In early February, Miller signed some of the 3,000 copies printed by New Mexico Press, culminating a 25-year project. For the next five months, 43 of the photos will be on display in Denver at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum.

    Miller, a photography professor for more than 25 years, said the book preserves and portrays abandoned, deactivated and repurposed space program sites through photography in a way that surpasses the official government approach to documentation. The book is both historical and artistic.

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posted 06-20-2017 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Abandoned in Place: Saving Space History" by Roland Miller is back on Kickstarter, this time as part of Kickstarter Gold ("new spins on ideas from their past projects"). From Miller:
With this Kickstater Gold project, the money I raise is going to support my continuing efforts to document, interpret, and preserve the history of space exploration and research. Because the money raised will not be going to the UNM Press, I can offer the book as a stand-alone reward.

Along with offering the "Abandoned in Place" book as a stand-alone reward, I have also bundled it as a package with prints of images which were not available in the original Kickstarter. Other reward levels bundle the book as a package with new sizes of prints of images which were available in the original Kickstater. There are also prints available without the book for those who already own a copy of it.

The project ends at 4:18 PM EDT, on July 20, 2017, exactly 48 years to the minute after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in 1969.

Along with the book and photographic prints that are available, the Kickstarter also offers a limited edition patch designed by Tim Gagnon, which is included with every pledge of $15 or more.

astrobar1
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posted 06-21-2017 08:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for astrobar1   Click Here to Email astrobar1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wow, incredible patch! Anyone who has ever visited Pad 34 will instantly love it. Hmm, you may have hooked one here...

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posted 06-22-2017 09:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for GoesTo11   Click Here to Email GoesTo11     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fully funded in 2 days!

I missed this the first time round, but did my part this time for a book, a patch, and a worthy cause.

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