Fox, who describes the destruction of Hiroshima in his essay, added: “There’s a reason for this kind of cultural forgetting.
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Fox said in a telephone interview, “If we don’t do this, we’re not sure anyone else will.” Klett, whose work has been shown nationally and internationally for more than 30 years, worked on “Half-Life” throughout the 2000s. Fox, director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and Mr. we as a country would let it go so easily.” Later he continues, “We think the base is as important as a Civil War battlefield, and cannot understand why. Fox writes that the Enola Gay hangar “stands for what some historians call the most important event of the 20th century, the first deployment of an atomic bomb, an event that continues to shape the history of the world.” In an excellent essay that complements Mr. The bomber arrived at Wendover on July 14, 1945, and was stationed there for two weeks before being flown to Tinian Island in the Pacific, and then deployed to Hiroshima. The Wendover site sits on salt flats east of the Utah-Nevada border, most of it a 20th-century ruin moldering behind a fence, including the hangar where the Enola Gay was kept in secret. When governments decline to bear witness, the job falls to the artist. “The preservation of the Wendover Air Field and the Enola Gay hangar as emblematic of nuclear warfare seemed to us a historical imperative,” Mr. They have created visual landmarks, even as time swallows these landscapes whole. Their work defies the silent and subtle lie of forgetting, blunts the clichés and received wisdom about Hiroshima and Chernobyl. These photographers were drawn to pariah monuments, landscapes in extremis. The history of the Atomic Age pulses in these books, which arrive in the shadow of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan a year ago. And those places end up haunted, as truth, memory and the official story struggle for primacy. When governments choose to forget - whether consciously or not - they make places restricted, create blank lands of secrets. “Chernobyl Zone (I)” by the Russian photographer Andrej Krementschouk (Kehrer) ushers us into the restricted zone around Chernobyl, where Reactor No.
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Wendover was deactivated in 1949, and most of it has been in decay since. Fox (Radius) focuses on the Utah airfield where the Enola Gay was prepared before it flew to Asia and dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. “The Half-Life of History: The Atomic Bomb and Wendover Air Base” by the photographer Mark Klett and the writer William L. TWO recent books of photography wrestle with the tension between official forgetting and the populist urge to remember.