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 Cover photo of Ken Case, the "Atomic Cowboy," a worker at the Nevada Test Site, from "American Ground Zero: the Secret Nuclear War." |
Selected documentary work 1981-2003American Ground Zero: the Secret Nuclear War
“One is awed by her accomplishment.” –Cornell Capa, founder of the International Center of Photography, New York “Exposes a major national scandal.” –Publishers’ Weekly “You may be reminded of James Agee’s 'Now Let Us Praise Famous Men.'” –The New York Times “Ms. Gallagher’s book is the kind of truthful examination that we must constantly make about ourselves.” –Bill Moyers "A heroine of the 20th Century." –Sir Harold Evans “They are ordinary people to whom something extraordinary has happened, and Carole Gallagher reveals their pain, anger and confusion with the relentless clarity of art.” –The Washington Post Book World, T.H.Watkins “Gallagher’s discipline in becoming ‘a blank slate upon which the stories and images could be written’ has resulted in a document of immense authority and human urgency.” –The Los Angeles Times Book Review “Electrifying. This is photography at its best . . . at the service of history and truth.” –The British Journal of Photography “Gallagher’s work … proclaims the most explicit continuity with the Farm Security Adminstration. She is one of the founders of the Atomic Photographers Guild, arguably the most important social-documentary collaboration since the 1930s when Roy Stryker’s FSA photo unit brought together the awesome lenses of Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein. Just as the FSA photographers dramatized the plight of the rural poor during the Depression, so the Guild has endeavored to document the human and ecological costs of the nuclear arms race. There is no doubt that "American Ground Zero" is intended to stand on the same shelf with such New Deal-era classics as "An American Exodus," "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," and "You Have Seen Their Faces." Hers, however, is a more painful book.” -Mike Davis in his essay “Dead West” in The New Left Review "You'll never teach in Utah again." -Craig Denton, Chairman, Department of Communication, University of Utah, after the international success of "American Ground Zero." AWARDS, GRANTS AND HONORS Deer Creek Foundation, Arkay Foundation, 2002; The Portland State University Foundation, 2001; The New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, 2000; The Fund for Investigative Journalism, 2000; The Oregon Community Foundation, Nussbaum Ionizing Radiation and Human Health Fund, 1999; Puffin Foundation, 1999; Utah Humanities Committee, 1995 (lecture grant); Nieman Foundation Fellowship finalist, Harvard University, 1995; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, 1993; Pope Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism, 1993; Deer Creek Foundation, Threshold Foundation, Aaron Diamond Foundation, LEF Foundation, Glickenhaus Foundation in 1993-94 in support of the exhibition at International Center of Photography; Nevada Humanities Committee, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund, 1992; The Fund for Investigative Journalism, 1991; Utah Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship, 1989; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Program for Research and Writing in International Peace and Security, 1988; the Ruth Mott Fund, 1988 and 1989; Columbia Foundation, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994; Deer Creek Foundation, 1987; CS Fund, 1986. MacDowell Colony Fellow, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1992. Listing in Who’s Who, Who’s Who in American Art, World Who’s Who of Women. "American Ground Zero: the Secret Nuclear War" was chosen as one of the ten best books of the decade by American Photographer magazine in its special issue, “Women in Photography: The Modern Masters.” |
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