Space Lands 8×10 edition

In New Mexico and across the desert states of the American South West one can find the remnants of a lost space age which twinned utopian ideals from science fiction with the paranoic machinery of deterrence. One also finds the sites of a new optimistic tourist driven future for space travel.

A few miles and a range of low hills separate the site of the planned Spaceport America (where Richard Branson plans to launch his spectacular Virgin Galactic space line sometime in 2010), from the site of the first atomic explosion.

Between these two locations lie discarded rockets, atomic age ghost towns, alien landscapes, and a town that renamed itself after a radio show.

In this book Paul Freeman explores the past and future sites of the rocket age in a series of large format photographs and pays homage to American colour photographers of the 1970’s.