Amelia Earhart Conspiracy Theories Book
A Japanese bound book that communicates the conspiracy theories around Amelia Earhart's disappearance alongside the story of her life. Using image distortion and paper folds to intertwine the conspiracy theories into the narrative, disrupting the story.
Earhart was an American aviation pioneer, who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She disappeared during an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the world in 1937; her body and plane were never found. Many conspiracy theories formed around her disappearance.
The book would go through Amelia Earhart’s life with hints throughout, on the different conspiracy theories about what happened after her plane disappeared. The theories ranged from crash landing in the sea and becoming a castaway, to being spy for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The book is Japanese bound and has a bright red cover to reflect the Japanese theories later in the narrative as well as Earhart’s strong and courageous spirit. The paper stock is off-white recycled paper, with a heavy texture to reflect the manuals and books she would have had in her possesion.
The introductory pages tell the story of Earhart’s childhood and her discovery of aviation. The pages have splashes of yellow paint to reflect her first canary yellow plane.
As the book goes through her life and gets closer to her disappearance, the text and images on each page start to become distorted as conspiracy theories sneak in. The folds in the edges of the paper are also used to display conspiracy theories. The picture about above shows an advert for the face cream Earhart used. The jar of this cream was then found on an beach close to where she disappeared.
The penultimate spread contains a perforated line going through a photograph of Amelia Earhart, encouraging the viewer to tear it open and reveal a collage of all the theories. The final page leaves the viewer with a question.
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