Atomic Bomb Test Sequence, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Nevada Proving Ground, #1, March 11, 1953

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.6 × 21.2 cm (6 9/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 18 × 23 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2015.137.1

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

International News Photos, Inc. (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, along left edge in graphite: Thurs. trib [illegible] / 3 [circled] / 4x4 ¾; upper center stamped in blue ink: ENGRAVING / 1953 MAR 11 PM 4:07; center International News Photos copyright stamp in black ink; printed in black ink on applied newspaper inverted: These two frame / houses on the atomic / proving grounds in Nevada / will be exposed to the / blast and heat of an atom- / ic explosion March 17. / They will be used in a / civil defense phase of the / atomic tests.; lower left stamped in red ink inverted: TRIBUNE 1st Edition / MAR 12 1953; by unknown hand, lower right in pink ink circled: atom Bomb – test. Nevada - 1953

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

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.