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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.

Is it possible to go beyond the subjectivity of the speaker’s experience to fully discern the identity of a place?
What is identity?
When we take pictures we not only decide to focus on something but we frame it as well. When we wander around a city our attention is caught by unique details or reoccurring patterns. Then our mind makes connections. Are a hundred images enough to shape the identity of a place?
Photographs by Francesco Paleari.

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A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission

Peter Mitchell

edited by Federica Chiocchetti, Roger Hargreaves

Work  
Subform Photobook
Topics Leeds, Urban Landscape
Methods Photography
Language English, French
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 27.0 cm
Weight 3,000 gram
Pages 100