Description: Nevada Test Site, Hardcover by Gowin, Emmet; Adams, Robert (FRW), ISBN 0691196036, ISBN-13 9780691196039, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Emmet Gowin likes to ask a provocative question: "Which country on earth has had the largest number of nuclear bombs detonated within its borders?" The answer is the United States. Covering approximately 680 square miles, the Nevada National Security Site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 1,021 announced nuclear tests occurred there, 921 of which were underground. The site, which is closed to the public, including itsairspace, contains 28 areas, 1,100 buildings, 400 miles of paved roads, 300 miles of unpaved roads, 10 heliports, and two airstrips. Its surface is covered with subsidence craters from testing, and in places looks like the moon. In 1996, Gowin received permission to document the landscape by air, after over a decade of working to secure access. These aerial views of environmental devastation--made quietly majestic but no less potent in the hands of a master photographer--unveil environmental travesties on a grand scale. While groups of images from the Nevada Test Site series have been published previously, this book will produce the largest number yet, and three quarters of the pictures will not have been published at all. Gowin is the only photographer to have been granted access to this site, which is now permanently closed, post-9/11. Other than images made by the government for geographic purposes, no other images of this landscape exist. Th will feature a preface by photographer Robert Adams (America, b. 1937), whose photographic and written work is concerned with landscape, urbanization, and activism. It will also feature an afterword by Gowin on how he made the images, and their significance to him today."--Provided by publisher.
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Book Title: Nevada Test Site
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Name: Nevada Test Site
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Individual Photographers / General, Environmental & Land Art, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 58.8 Oz
Author: Emmet Gowin
Item Length: 12.2 in
Subject Area: Art, Photography, History
Item Width: 10.2 in
Format: Hardcover
