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The Nevada Test Site (Hardcover)
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The Nevada Test Site (Hardcover)
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A photographic study of the land that served as the main testing
site for American nuclear devices for four decades More nuclear
bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in
the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test
Site was the primary location for these activities, withstanding
more than a thousand nuclear tests that left swaths of the American
Southwest resembling the moon. In The Nevada Test Site, renowned
American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents staggering
aerial photographs of this powerfully evocative place. Gowin
remains the only photographer granted official and sustained access
to the Nevada Test Site. For this book, he has revisited his
original negatives, made in 1996 and 1997, and fully three-quarters
of the images featured here have never been published before. These
images show blast areas where sand has been transformed to glass,
valleys pockmarked with hundreds of craters, trenches that
protected soldiers from blasts, areas used to bury radioactive
waste, and debris left behind following tests conducted as deep as
five thousand feet below the Earth's surface. Together, these
stunning, unsettling views unveil environmental travesties on a
grand scale. An essay by Gowin delves into the history of his work
at the site, including his decade-long efforts to secure entry, the
photographic equipment and techniques employed, and what the images
mean to him today. With a foreword by photographer and writer
Robert Adams, The Nevada Test Site stands as a testament to the
harms we inflict on our surroundings, the importance of bearing
witness, and the possibilities for aesthetic redemption and a more
hopeful future.
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