Joint Army Navy Task Force - First Atomic Bomb Test (Operation Crossroads, Able) at Bikini Atoll, June 30, 1946 (Not Just Another Cloud: This topside photograph of the Baker Day explosion shows the top of the radioactive cloud as it appeared to airborne photographers. The shock waves in the water can be seen sweeping out in all directions from the center of the subsurface explosion) – Works

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Joint Army Navy Task Force - First Atomic Bomb Test (Operation Crossroads, Able) at Bikini Atoll, June 30, 1946 (Not Just Another Cloud: This topside photograph of the Baker Day explosion shows the top of the radioactive cloud as it appeared to airborne photographers. The shock waves in the water can be seen sweeping out in all directions from the center of the subsurface explosion)

Unidentified artist, American, 20th century

1946

Medium/Technique Photograph, gelatin silver print

Dimensions Image: 17.8 × 22.2 cm (7 × 8 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Credit Line Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund for Photography

Accession Number2023.597

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPhotographs

Provenance2019, sold by Daniel/Oliver Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, to Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York; 2023, sold by Keith de Lellis Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 21, 2023)