Joint Army Task Force One Photo - Baker Day atomic Explosion - image-1
Joint Army Task Force One Photo - Baker Day atomic Explosion - image-2
Joint Army Task Force One Photo - Baker Day atomic Explosion - image-1Joint Army Task Force One Photo - Baker Day atomic Explosion - image-2

Lot 166 D

Joint Army Task Force One Photo - Baker Day atomic Explosion

Auction 1012 - overview Cologne
24.05.2013, 00:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.200 €
Result: 1.342 € (incl. premium)
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2 vintage gelatin silver prints. 17.7 x 22.5 cm (20.5 x 25.2 cm) and 18.1 x 23 cm (20.6 x 25.4 cm). Each print with 'JOINT ARMY TASK FORCE ONE PHOTO' stamp and number stamp on the verso.

„In this oblique view the condensation cloud, still in an early stage, is expanding on the heels of the air shock wave at over 700 miles per hour. A large ship appears as a tiny black speck in the air shock disk, the white area marking the outward sweep of the shock wave across the surface of the water." (cited from: William S. Shurcliff, Bombs at Bikini. The Official Report of Operation Crossroads, New York 1947, Tafel 26; cf. William S. Shurcliff, Operation Crossroads. The Official Pictorial Record, New York 1946, ill. 182)