For an edited version of "Thank you, Mr. Avedon," retitled as "Transformations" and edited into pablum, see Daylight Magazine issue # 6, 2007.
http://www.daylightmagazine.org/store/issue-6-atomic-issue
Thinking about nuclear weapons, the manufacture and testing of them, proliferation, cultural responses to The Bomb, and anything else that comes up from 30 years of memories of documenting the effects of nuclear tests in Nevada.
On the anniversary of the first atmospheric nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in 1951, I am publishing this essay in honor...