Photographs have played a crucial role in shaping perceptions of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. In Camera Atomica, art historian John O’Brian explores the intimate relationship between photography and nuclear events to uncover how the camera lens has shaped public perceptions of the atomic age and its anxieties.
Bringing together both vintage and contemporary photographs that have recorded and, in certain instances, provided motivation for the production of nuclear events, O’Brian travels through history ― from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011.
In this vivid volume, readers will encounter more than 200 images that simultaneously document and raise questions about the contradictory roles of photography during this period. Included are Hiromitso Toyosaki and Shomei Tomatsu’s photographs of hibakusha (individuals exposed to radiation from atomic bombs), David McMillan’s photographs at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and Sandy Skoglund’s darkly humorous Radioactive Cats, along with photographs by Nancy Burson, Edward Burtynsky, Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge, Kenji Higuchi, Richard Misrach, Weegee, and many others.
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John O’Brian has published more than a dozen books. He has taught art history at the University of British Columbia since 1987. Other contributors include Julia Bryan-Wilson, HIromitsu Toyosaki, Blake Fitzpatrick, Iaian Boyle and Gene Ray, Douglas Copeland, and Susan Schuppli.
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Paperback. Condición: Fine. 1st. 304 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Camera Atomica, Art Gallery of Ontario, 8 July 2014 to 25 January 2016. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Photographs have a crucial place in the representation of the atomic age and its anxieties. This book examines narratives beyond the technological sublime that 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." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Acknowledgements, by John O'Brian; Introduction: through a radioactive lens, by John O'Brian; Photographing mushroom clouds in an age of risk, by John O'Brian; Uranium; Radiation. Posing by the cloud: U.S. nuclear test site photography in process, by Julia Bryan-Wilson; Hiroshima; Nagasaki. Hidden and forgotten Hibakusha: nuclear legacy, by Hiromitsu Toyosaki; The wrong sun, by Douglas Coupland; Text and protest. Through the lens, darkly, by Iain Boal & Gene Ray; Atomic photographs below the surface, by Blake Fitzpatrick; Visible and invisible. Radical contact prints, by Susan Schuppli; Atomic timeline. Size: 8vo. Collectible. Nº de ref. del artículo: 111971
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