Nuclear Landscapes (Creating The North American Landscape)

Nuclear Landscapes (Creating the North American Landscape)

From Library JournalSince 1945, over 700 nuclear tests have taken place on American soil alone. Through carefully composed color photographs, Goin documents the lasting damage from nuclear explosions at several sites. The antithesis of classic landscapes, these photographs present haunted landscapes understandably devoid of habitation, with colors leached out and the land permanently laid waste. Viewers thus feel the need to step lightly; there is a tendency to hold one's breath. The photographs are accompanied by an informative and balanced text, and each is infused with the ghost of what this land once was. This extremely important book should be given a highly visible place in school, public, and academic libraries.- Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, Ill.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.Shows nuclear weapons test sites in Nevada, Washington, and the Marshall Islands, discussing each site and remaining radiation levelsReview"With great courage (many of the sites are still radioactive) and a trained eye, [Goin] captures for us all the true cost of nuclear supremacy with extraordinary color photographs... at once stunning and chilling, presenting powerful visual icons of the nuclear age." -- Michael Toms, New Dimensions"A stunning look at the effects of America's love affair with the atom." -- St. Louis Post-DispatchReview"Peter Goin's remarkable photographs add a new and startling ingredient to our awareness of the American landscape: a glimpse of a possible future that is no less instructive, no less fascinating than any glimpse of a remote and turbulent past. They have the value of rare works of photographic art; let us hope they remain so." -- J. B. Jackson