Harold Edgerton
An Artist's Concept of Mike's Fireball -- 3 1/4 Miles in Diameter -- Over the Skyline of New York City , 1952
Silver print
8 x 10 inches
With a mimeographed caption and Edgerton's/U.S. Air Force credit on verso.
With a mimeographed caption and Edgerton's/U.S. Air Force credit on verso.
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Created at the onset of the cold war, this frightening montaged photograph places one of Harold Edgerton’s images of an atomic explosion over the New York City skyline. As per...
Created at the onset of the cold war, this frightening montaged photograph places one of Harold Edgerton’s images of an atomic explosion over the New York City skyline. As per the typed caption verso, it shows “Mike’s fireball - - 3-1/4 miles in diameter - - over the skyline of New York City. With the towering Empire State Building as Ground Zero, the fireball would have extended from Washington Square uptown to Central Park.”