RARE album of large-scale photographs of the towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl after the notorious Chernobyl disaster, a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, USSR. Fifteen years later, in June of 2001, Robert Polidori photographed what was left behind in the this dead zone with richly detailed images which move from the burned-out control room of Reactor 4, where technicians staged the experiment that caused the disaster, to the unfinished apartment complexes, ransacked schools and abandoned nurseries. The photographer - Robert Polidori, is known for his architectural studies and frequent contributions to magazines and books, and is seen in many mediums, from the New Yorker to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 385x305mm. 110 pages. Grey cloth oblong Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket bottom edge, corner and spine edges wrinkled. Cover bottom edge bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This rare haunting depiction of one of the most notorious catastrophes in human history is in very good condition.