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☛ New York Journal-American photographic morgue: “Atomic Age Kiss?” by International News Photo, published on December 1954. Rec. no NYJA000321. © The Ransom Center.
Official description:
Air raid wardens in Bonn, Germany, wearing radioactive protective clothing and masks.
This photo ―which was manually retouched― is part of a folder of seven items labeled “Atomic bomb” which also contains this pre-Photoshop photographic rendering of atomic blast in New York City:
Previously:
- From the same photographic morgue: “Beauty Contestant Collapses”
- Another kiss involving masks: “Boy meets girl – from Mars” by Weegee, ca. 1955
- By Philippe Theophanidis
- on
- ― Published in Art, Photography, Technology
- Tagged: atomic, bomb, catastrophe, fear, kiss, nuclear, Photoshop, radiation, rendering