Atomic Bomb Test Sequence, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Nevada Proving Ground, #1
March 11, 1953
Artist
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
2015.137.1
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, 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
Wikidata ID
Q64144788