Associated Press Photo - Views of the underwater Atomic Bomb Explosion at Bikini Atoll. - image-1
Associated Press Photo - Views of the underwater Atomic Bomb Explosion at Bikini Atoll. - image-2
Associated Press Photo - Views of the underwater Atomic Bomb Explosion at Bikini Atoll. - image-1Associated Press Photo - Views of the underwater Atomic Bomb Explosion at Bikini Atoll. - image-2

Lot 167 Dα

Associated Press Photo - Views of the underwater Atomic Bomb Explosion at Bikini Atoll.

Auction 1012 - overview Cologne
24.05.2013, 00:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.200 €
Result: 1.464 € (incl. premium)
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2 vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver prints. 17.8 x 23.5 cm and 20 x 16.8 cm (22.7 x 18 cm). One print numbered in the negative lower right. One print titled in the negative. Both prints with stamp 'ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO' on the verso. One print with date stamp and 'ASSOCIATED PRESS' label on the verso.

„This photograph was taken by an automatic camera mounted in a drone plane flying directly above the Zero-point at the instant of detonation [...] The cauliflower is funnelshaped at this stage; within its jagged rim is a condensation could nearly a mile in diameter, which evaporated a few seconds later." (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. 183)