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Title:
Camera atomica / edited by John O'Brian.
Publisher:
Black Dog Publishing Ltd.,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subject:
Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.
Nuclear explosions in art--Exhibitions.
Nuclear weapons--Testing--Exhibitions.
Nuclear weapons--Testing--Pictorial works.
Atomic bomb--Exhibitions.
Atomic bomb--Pictorial works.
Nuclear power plants--Exhibitions.
Nuclear power plants--Pictorial works.
Fallout shelters--Exhibitions.
Fallout shelters--Pictorial works.
Other Authors:
O'Brian, John, 1944- editor.
Art Gallery of Ontario, host institution.
Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Camera Atomica Art Gallery of Ontario 8 July 2014-25 January 2016"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
1908966483
9781908966483
OCLC:
(OCoLC)875151549
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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