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Exhibitions: How Photographers Framed the Nuclear Age

By David Schonauer   Wednesday October 7, 2015


The first picture of the nuclear age was shocking.

It didn’t show a mushroom cloud.

It was an x-ray of a woman’s hand made by physicist Wilhelm Rontgen, discoverer of the technology. The hand belonged to his wife, who was aghast when she saw the image.

“She said, ‘I’ve seen …


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