The, Uranium Seekers, saga began in 1976 when world-famous
Hollywood, California photographer, Martin, was contracted to come
to Utah and begin documenting, paying photographic tribute to,
uranium miners, native Americans, and the Vanadium King uranium and
vanadium mines on Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah. The essence
of the project was to pay tribute to the persons who traversed Zane
Grey's and John Ford's great western expanse in search of uranium
ore, one rock at a time, from before Madame Curies trips to the,
then, present, and to remind the world's public that uranium was,
and still is, used to kill, not humanity, rather cancer. I harbored
the hope that by going back to the first uranium rocks the nuclear
industry would re-evaluate the physical structure of nuclear
reactors, one cubic yard at a time. Nuclear reactors, when built,
witness Fukushima Daiichi, are still being created with too much
haste. Like the uranium miners themselves, it's the hands of the
humanity who cast the cement forms in which the reactors rest which
determines safety. I also, rather naively, hoped when uranium's
harmonous utilization was embraced its destructive military
reality, throughout the world, would melt. Even with the support of
the fine Beverly Hills, California literary agent, Clyde M.
Vandeburg of Vandeburg-Linkletter Associates who represented Ronald
and Nancy Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and many others at the time, the
national and international events at Three-Mile Island and
Chernobyl put Uranium Seekers and Martins great photographs to bed
for decades. However, recently I learned the Utah Historical
Quarterly Unpublished Manuscripts from the Department of Community
and Culture at the Utah State Archives had harbored some of the
manuscript material for decades and the recent events at Fukushima
Daiichi made uranium part of the international conversation once
again, I decided to dust off Martin's work and snatches of the
original material for Uranium Seekers.
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