What is it about?
In my article, I examine artistic practices that makes photos of radioactivity and radioactive materials without using a camera. Artists expose photographic film directly using objects contaminated due to bombing, testing, nuclear reactor explosions, mining or uranium disposal cells.
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Why is it important?
These works are important because they artistically engage with geopolitics and local histories of atomic contamination. Also, these autoradiographic works callenge our traditional understanding of photography.
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This page is a summary of: Photographing hyperobjects: The non-human temporality of autoradiography, Philosophy of Photography, April 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/pop_00042_1.
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