Camera atomica
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  alternate name: Nuclear power plants--Pictorial works
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  alternate name: Nuclear weapons--Testing--Pictorial works
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  alternate name: Fallout shelters--Pictorial works
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  alternate name: Atomic bomb--Pictorial works
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  alternate name: Nuclear weapons--Testing--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Fallout shelters--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Nuclear explosions in art--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Atomic bomb--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Nuclear power plants--Exhibitions
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126550
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133235
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320149209
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135116
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135288
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330136127
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137783
abstract: Photographs have a crucial place in the representation of the atomic age and its anxieties. This book examines narratives beyond the technological sublimethat dominates much nuclear photography, suppressing representations of the human form in favor of representations of B-52 bombers and mushroom clouds. The book proposes that the body is the site where the social environment interacts with the so-called atomic road: uranium mining and processing, radiation research, nuclear reactor construction and operation, and weapons testing. Co-published with the Art Gallery of Ontario to accompany a major exhibition there in 2014. Cameras have both recorded and - in certain instances - provided motivation for the production of nuclear events. Their histories and technological development are intimately intertwined: at McGill University in the early 1900s, for example, Ernest Rutherford employed photography to identify the properties of radioactive materials, winning a Nobel Prize for his research, and at Los Alamos in the mid-1940s, Julian E. Mack and Berlyn Brixner designed specialized cameras for measuring the blast yield of nuclear weapons.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31085207
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3113734
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Foreword / Matthew Teitelbaum -- Acknowledgements / John O'Brian -- Introduction: Through a radioactive lens / John O'Brian -- Test and protest -- Nuclear flowers of hell / John O'Brian -- Posing by the cloud : US nuclear test site photography in process / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Hidden and forgotten Hibakusha : nuclear legacy / Hiromitsu Toyosaki -- Atomic photographs below the surface / Blake Fitzpatrick -- Uranium and radiation -- Through the lens, darkly / Iain Boal and Gene Ray -- Visible and invisible -- The wrong sun / Douglas Coupland -- Radical contact prints / Susan Schuppli.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301246883

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