Annie, Operation Upshot-Knothole

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Annie, Operation Upshot-Knothole

DateMarch 17, 1953, printed March 20, 1953

MediumGelatin silver prints

DimensionsImage (.A): 4 3/8 × 5 3/8 in. (11.1 × 13.7 cm)
Sheet (.A): 4 3/8 × 5 3/8 in. (11.1 × 13.7 cm)
Image (.B): 4 11/16 × 5 9/16 in. (11.9 × 14.1 cm)
Sheet (.B): 4 11/16 × 5 9/16 in. (11.9 × 14.1 cm)
Image (.C): 4 1/2 × 5 9/16 in. (11.4 × 14.1 cm)
Sheet (.C): 4 1/2 × 5 9/16 in. (11.4 × 14.1 cm)
Image (.D): 4 5/8 × 5 3/8 in. (11.7 × 13.7 cm)
Sheet (.D): 4 5/8 × 5 3/8 in. (11.7 × 13.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors

Object number2014.754.A-.D

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThis surreal sequence of photographs shows the effects of a nuclear blast on a typical wood-frame house 3,500 feet from the blast center. It was one element of a civil-defense study, “Operation Doorstep,” in which two houses, fifty automobiles, and eight residential bomb shelters were photo-graphed and filmed during the “Annie” nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site on March 17, 1953, in order to study their vulnerability.
ProvenanceEarly provenance unknown; Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2014

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