-H-Bomb: The Family of Man

The work, H-Bomb: The Family of Man Project, (2006) created for the TrenchArt Casements Series, is part of a larger work in progress that focuses on the exhibition and subsequent book, The Family of Man. Originally held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, The Family of Man was the most successful photographic exhibition ever mounted. The final image in the first run of the exhibition was a large color transparency of the H-Bomb. It was the only color photograph in the entire show of 503 works. In subsequent runs and the exhibition catalogue, the bomb image was removed. H-Bomb: The Family of Man Project attempts to address that erasure by retrieving the coda to the original exhibition. It is an act of reclamation and an act of reinscription.