Author: BALLARD, Murray
Title: Murray Ballard - The Prospect of Immortality.
Description: London, GOST Books, 2016. 28.5 x 22.5 cm. 186 pp. Clothbound. Illustrated in colour throughout. - In 1962, Robert Ettinger published The Prospect of Immortality, the book that gave birth to the idea of 'cryonics' - the process of freezing a human body after death in the hope that scientific advances might one day restore life. - Half a century later, between 2006 and 2015, Murray Ballard (b. 1983) has undertaken an extensive photographic investigation of the practice Ettinger inspired. Ballard's photographic book of the same name takes the viewer on a journey through the small but dedicated international cryonics community, from the English seaside retirement town of Peacehaven; through the high-tech laboratories of Arizona; to the rudimentary facilities of KrioRus, on the outskirts of Moscow. Worldwide there are approximately 200 patients stored permanently in liquid nitrogen, with a further two thousand people signed up for cryonics after death. - As new/new copy

Keywords: 9781910401033


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