Robert Adams: Our lives and our children

Name: Robert Adams: Our lives and our children
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783958290976
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Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant 1979-1983

By Robert Adams

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Robert Adams: Our Lives and Our Children captures a poignant moment of uncertainty and threat during the early 1970s near Denver, Colorado. Following a fire near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Adams documented the lives of people living dangerously close to this toxic site. Through his powerful photography, he explores the fragile value of human life amidst the looming menace of nuclear catastrophe, creating a visual testament that resonates beyond its local context to a universal concern.
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This book is suited for readers interested in arts and culture, particularly those who appreciate documentary photography with a social and environmental conscience. It will also appeal to individuals concerned with history, nuclear issues, and the impact of industrial hazards on communities.

One day in the early 1970s, the author and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, near Denver, Colorado. He decided to try to picture what of worth - absolute worth - stood to be lost in a nuclear catastrophe. This title presents these photographs.

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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.

The new Steidl edition of Our Lives and Our Children presents an expanded sequence of pictures that retains the potent compactness of the sought-after first edition (out of print for nearly three decades), while faithfully expressing the full-bodied tonalities of Adams' original prints.