Our Lives and Our Children : Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant

Robert Adams
Our Lives and Our Children : Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant
Photographs: Robert Adams
Publisher: Aperture
96 pages
Pictures: 70
Year: 1983
Comments: Softcover, 280 x 215 mm. First edition, 1983. Black & white photographs. Text in english. Light wear and traces on the verso. Stamp of the ex-libris. In very good condition.
One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, near Denver, Colorado. For an hour they watched the plume grow, tried without success to learn whether the fire involved the radioactive and extremely toxic plutonium, and experienced a sense of helplessness before what appeared to be a nuclear accident in progress. Ultimately it was announced that the fire was burning safely outside the plant, but as a result of their hour of uncertainty Adams decided to try to picture what of worth — absolute worth — stood to be lost in a nuclear catastrophe.
Adams photographed Our Lives and Our Children in Denver and its suburbs ; the individuals shown were within hazardous proximity of the Rocky Flats Plant. Their peril is representative, however, of a wider threat to all of us from nuclear weapons, one that continues in different forms to this day.










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