{"title":"Michael Light","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"michael-light-100-suns","title":"Michael Light - 100 Suns","description":"\u003cp\u003eHB, Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear tests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLisätiedot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally invisible—but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723 underground tests, the last in 1992. 100 Suns documents the era of visible nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with one hundred photographs drawn by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen and still photographers were sworn to secrecy. The title, 100 Suns, refers to the response by J.Robert Oppenheimer to the world’s first nuclear explosion in New Mexico when he quoted a passage from the Bhagavad Gita, the classic Vedic text: “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One . . . I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This was Oppenheimer’s attempt to describe the otherwise indescribable. 100 Suns likewise confronts the indescribable by presenting without embellishment the stark evidence of the tests at the moment of detonation. Since the tests were conducted either in Nevada or the Pacific the book is simply divided between the desert and the ocean. Each photograph is presented with the name of the test, its explosive yield in kilotons or megatons, the date and the location. The enormity of the events recorded is contrasted with the understated neutrality of bare data. Interspersed within the sequence of explosions are pictures of the awestruck witnesses. The evidence of these photographs is terrifying in its implication while at same time profoundly disconcerting as a spectacle. The visual grandeur of such imagery is balanced by the chilling facts provided at the end of the book in the detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weaponry and an extensive bibliography. A dramatic sequel to Michael Light’s Full Moon, 100 Suns forms an unprecedented historical document.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Light","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55042366996807,"sku":"9781400041138","price":300.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1010\/2420\/3079\/files\/31ueodrvjrl-jpg_sx350_bo1_138_138_138_sh30_bo0_100_100_100_pa7_5_5_10__1.jpg?v=1789563096"},{"product_id":"michael-light-full-moon","title":"Michael Light - Full moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eHB, 236 sivua.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11—the first landing on the Moon—this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it commemorates and re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eLisätiedot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe most thrilling of all journeys—the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back—yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. Michael Light has woven 129 of these stunningly clear images into a single composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking immediacy and authenticity that begins with the launch and is followed by a walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a return to Earth with an orbit and splashdown. Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away. Published on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11—the first landing on the Moon—this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it commemorates and re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Light","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55042919498055,"sku":"9780375414947","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1010\/2420\/3079\/files\/as15-1005m_1.jpg?v=1789564791"}],"url":"https:\/\/luova.info\/collections\/valokuvaaja-michael-light.oembed","provider":"luova.info","version":"1.0","type":"link"}