Brewer, Lily
(2022)
Nuclear Citizenship: Mary Kavanagh and Photography as Civil Resistance.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Since the detonation of the Trinity Test in July 1945, the scientific and cultural consequences of weapons-testing in the United States and those consequences’ international entanglements have been mapped and visualized by artists working at the intersection between physics and photography. This dissertation outlines photography’s broad role in atomic history and subsequent public and cultural critique. Canadian artist-researcher Mary Kavanagh, along with her colleagues in the Atomic Photographers Guild, grapples with the motivations and realities of photography as a visualizing protocol and its later role in the interventionist politics of the United States. This dissertation’s accompanying online exhibition, Weaponized Landscapes: Trinity, makes public grievances and observations available to a wide domain of nuclear and Atomic-Age scholars, photographers, and artists. This suite recalls the methods enfolded in contemporary landscape photography’s history while speculating new, humanitarian futures that feature acute attention to civic complaint and conscientious responsiveness that underpin civic entitlements to space and wellbeing.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
6 June 2022 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
21 March 2022 |
| Approval Date: |
6 June 2022 |
| Submission Date: |
5 April 2022 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
126 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History of Art and Architecture |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Atomic Age, history of photography, resistance, landscape photography, civil gaze |
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| Date Deposited: |
06 Jun 2022 15:56 |
| Last Modified: |
06 Jun 2022 15:56 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/42488 |
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