"These images, from the eclipse of August 11, 1999, have been taken from magazines, books, and ads and manipulated by artist Claude Closky. Gathering them in this book he questions our relationship with them by playing on the paradox of the extraordinary and the banal. Implicitly, he asks: what is real and what is false when a natural event is funneled through a society that toys with and consumes images of everyday life in every conceivable way? Thus, the real subject of this book is not the August 11th eclipse but the proliferation and manipulation of images that accompany any and every media event. And, of course, how they are re-imagined." -- publisher's statement.