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In recognition of the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, two signature events in the twentieth century with implications still evolving, the Documentary Media Research Centre (DMRC) in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University is pleased to host the dual launch of Through Post-Atomic Eyes, edited by Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian, and The Bomb in the Wilderness by John O’Brian (UBC Press 2020).
The book launch and roundtable discussion will be moderated by Professor Claudette Lauzon, School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University with Matthew Farish, Blake Fitzpatrick, Katy McCormick, John O’Brian and Charles Stankievech
Confronting cultural fallout from the dawn of the nuclear age, Through Post-Atomic Eyes addresses the myriad iterations of nuclear threat and their visual legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether in the iconic black-and-white photograph of a mushroom cloud rising over Nagasaki in 1945 or in the steady stream of real-time video documenting the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, atomic culture - and our understanding of it - is inextricably constructed by the visual. This book takes the image as its starting point to address the visual inheritance of atomic anxieties; the intersection of photography, nuclear industries, and military technocultures; and the complex temporality of nuclear technologies. Contemporary artists contribute lens-based works that explore the consequences of the nuclear, and its afterlives, in the Anthropocene.