How to build a Telescope
by Carlos Trancoso
Photographs: Carlos Trancoso
Text: Miranda Verstraete
Publisher: XYZ Books
152 pages
Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-989-35169-9-7
Price: 33 €
Comments: Hardcover, 17 x 22 cm, First edition of 500 copies
How to Build a Telescope borrows its name from an instruction manual the artist discovered in his family home in an isolated, agricultural region of Portugal. Whether literal or metaphorical, the concept of “how to build a telescope” balances a provocative duality—between playful curiosity and scientific innovation—encouraging the viewer to reflect on the resistance of slower-paced technologies in the face of mass production. Using the rural setting as a visual playground, Trancoso draws on the original book to explore absurdities that reveal the universal in the personal and the cosmic in the mundane.
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How to build a Telescope
by Carlos Trancoso
Photographs: Carlos Trancoso
Text: Miranda Verstraete
Publisher: XYZ Books
152 pages
Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-989-35169-9-7
Price: 33 €
Comments: Hardcover, 17 x 22 cm, First edition of 500 copies
How to Build a Telescope borrows its name from an instruction manual the artist discovered in his family home in an isolated, agricultural region of Portugal. Whether literal or metaphorical, the concept of “how to build a telescope” balances a provocative duality—between playful curiosity and scientific innovation—encouraging the viewer to reflect on the resistance of slower-paced technologies in the face of mass production. Using the rural setting as a visual playground, Trancoso draws on the original book to explore absurdities that reveal the universal in the personal and the cosmic in the mundane.
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Fotofabbrica Prize 2026 (Winner)
Rencontres d’Arles Book Award 2026 (Finalist)
PhotoEspaña Photo Book Award 2026 (Finalist)
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How to build a Telescope
by Carlos Trancoso
Photographs: Carlos Trancoso
Text: Miranda Verstraete
Publisher: XYZ Books
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Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-989-35169-9-7
Price: 33 €
Comments: Hardcover, 17 x 22 cm, First edition of 500 copies
How to Build a Telescope borrows its name from an instruction manual the artist discovered in his family home in an isolated, agricultural region of Portugal. Whether literal or metaphorical, the concept of “how to build a telescope” balances a provocative duality—between playful curiosity and scientific innovation—encouraging the viewer to reflect on the resistance of slower-paced technologies in the face of mass production. Using the rural setting as a visual playground, Trancoso draws on the original book to explore absurdities that reveal the universal in the personal and the cosmic in the mundane.
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