Doctor Atomic: The Manhattan Project: Photography



Photographers Rachael Fermi and Esther Samra share images from their book, Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project, during a 2008 CUNY symposium surrounding the opera Doctor Atomic. Fermi, a granddaughter of Enrico Fermi, one of the key physicists of the Manhattan Project, began her quest to document the project after finding a color snapshot of the world's first atomic blast amid family photos in a shoebox. They discuss official and unofficial photographs, as well as work and social life at the various project sites.



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