Isbn: 9781908966483 - camera atomica: photographing the nuclear world (6 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Some shelf wear to edges, corners and cover. Name inside. Text block clear and binding good. WR.

Paperback. Condizione: 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.…

Softcover, 304 pages; good condition, heavy bump / tears to top of spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.