Atomic Bomb Test Sequence, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Nevada Proving Ground, #4

March 17, 1953

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 11.2 × 13 cm (4 7/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.137.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, top center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: 2 1/3 Seconds Home is Blown to Splinters / AP Wirephoto / A SHIELDED camera, 60 feet away, recorded the destruct- / tion of a civil defense test house at Tuesday’s atomic / tests in Nevada. Taking 24 pictures a second, the camera / revealed that the $20,000 home—which was 3,500 feet from / the center of the atomic explosion—was shattered in 2 1/3 / seconds. The only source of light was from the bomb blast. / Dummies in a basement shelter of the house apparently / were unhurt, and a second house, 7,500 feet away, sustained / only minor damage.; by unknown hand, lower center in pink ink: Atom Bomb Test – Nevada – 1953; lower right stamped in red ink perpendicular: [illegible] / 4th E[illegible] / MAR 20 1953; bottom left Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink

Wikidata ID

Q64144791

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