Atomic Bomb Test Sequence, Operation Upshot-Knothole, Nevada Proving Ground, #2, March 17, 1953

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 10.9 × 13.7 cm (4 5/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2015.137.2

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, top center partially visible copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; by unknown hand, top center in pink ink: Atom Bomb Test – Nevada – 195[cut off]; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: 1/3 Second Heat Wave Sets Structure Afire; by unknown hand, lower center in red pencil circled and inverted: 2; lower center in red pencil: 2 col x 3’’ [illegible] p.p.; along right edge stamped in red ink: 4th E[cut off] / MAR 20 [cut off]

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.