Simnuke: The ExhibitonBy Sarah Hromack (aka Forward Retreat www.forwardretreat.com)
http://www.sfist.com/archives/2005/08/09/simnuke_the_exhibiton.phpimage: http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_sarah/dominic_sunset_comp.jpg
Co-organized by curators Sasha Cronin-Harris and Max Carlson, theSimnuke exhibition serves as the gallery component to the SimnukeProject, a self-described "reaction to 60 years of the Atomic Age."The project kicked off on July 16th (the 60th anniversary of"Trinity," the first atomic detonation) with a nuclear simulation.(See Molly Go Lightly's coverage of the live event here.)
Simnuke's most substantial statements are made by those who havechronicled the physical and cultural effects of the atomic bomb.Photographers Yusuke Yamahata and Carole Gallagher documented theaftermath of detonations in Japan and the United States, respectively.Taken while serving as a photographer in the Japanese army, Yamahata'snow-iconic images are stored in our national memory bank as memorialsto the horror inflicted upon Nagasaki in 1945. Sixty years later,these photographs still provoke involuntary chills with theirstraight, photojournalistic capturing of human devastation. Scenes ofdestruction
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Simnuke: The ExhibitonBy Sarah Hromack (aka Forward Retreat www.forwardretreat.com)
http://www.sfist.com/archives/2005/08/09/simnuke_the_exhibiton.php
image:
http://www.sfist.com/attachments/sfist_sarah/dominic_sunset_comp.jpg
Co-organized by curators Sasha Cronin-Harris and Max Carlson, theSimnuke exhibition serves as the gallery component to the SimnukeProject, a self-described "reaction to 60 years of the Atomic Age."The project kicked off on July 16th (the 60th anniversary of"Trinity," the first atomic detonation) with a nuclear simulation.(See Molly Go Lightly's coverage of the live event here.[below])
Simnuke's most substantial statements are made by those who havechronicled the physical and cultural effects of the atomic bomb.Photographers Yusuke Yamahata and Carole Gallagher documented theaftermath of detonations in Japan and the United States, respectively.Taken while serving as a photographer in the Japanese army, Yamahata'snow-iconic images are stored in our national memory bank as memorialsto the horror inflicted upon Nagasaki in 1945. Sixty years later,these photographs still provoke involuntary chills with theirstraight, photojournalistic capturing of human devastation. Scenes ofdestruction