1. Loomis Dean
“Operation Teapot, Nevada”, 1955 Silver Gelatin Print 26.2 x 26.2 cm
Male dummy wrapped in white, used to show effects of A-bomb test in desert, Nevada.
LIFE/Photographer credit stamp, LIFE Picture Collection stamp and copyright stamp on verso.
2. Bernard Hoffman
“Nagasaki”, 1945
Gelatin Silver Printm, 33.3 x 26.8cm
3. US Army
“Baker, Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll”, July 25th, 1946
Silver Gelatin Contact Print, 23 x 43cm
The Baker Day mushroom as it appeared to the camera in a drone plane almost directly overhead at more than 15,000 feet altitude. The cloud was still rolling skyward when this photo was made.
4. US Army
“Hiroshima”, August 6th, 1945
Silver Gelatin Print, 16.8 x 16.8cm
5. US Army
“Umbrella, Operation Hardtack, Eniwetok”, July 21st, 1958
C-Print, 25.4 x 20.5 cm
Verso stamped: Colorage File No. 8G 227 P.O. Box 1036 Burbank, Calif. Label: Eniwetok Proving Ground In- ited States Army Task Group 7.2, In recognition of faithful and ef- ficient service while on duty at the Eniwetok proving ground, Mar- shall Islands, from 21 July 1958 to 7 July 1959. This certificate
is awarded to SP4 (E-4) Lloyd L Shileds. Dated 8 July 1959.
6. Thomas Ifor (1892 – 1956)
“Portrait of Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)”, 1940s
Silver Bromide Print, 42 x 34.6 cm
7. US Navy
“Frigate Bird, Operation Dominic, Christmas Island”, May 6, 1962
C-Print, 39.3 x 49cm
8. US Navy
“Yoke, Operation Sandstone, Pacific”, May 1st, 1948
Silver Gelatin Print, 31.3 x 26.4cm
A-BOMB: Pictures of Disaster at Daniel Blau Gallery, 19 April – 7 May 2011
Images selected from the exhibition by Daniel Campbell Blight.
