184 Eva Castringius
science photographer by working for Life and other magazines. The article
was titled “New Mexico’s Atomic Bomb Crater” and reported on the Trinity
test site some two months after the explosion of the first atomic bomb 37
near Alamogordo in New Mexico. 38 The Trinity crater, which Goro photographed from the air, was described as a “dark scar” 39 in the Jornada del
Muerto Desert with the panorama of the Sierra Oscura. He supplemented
this sublime perspective with spectacular closeups of the soil, which had
melted into a glass-like material. Goro used this so-called trinitite for his
autoradiography (Figure 8.4). He covered the negative with melted crater
Figure 8.4 Fritz Goro, Trinitite autoradiography.
Source: Life 19, no. 13 (September 24, 1945): 27, Fritz Goro/LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.
science photographer by working for Life and other magazines. The article
was titled “New Mexico’s Atomic Bomb Crater” and reported on the Trinity
test site some two months after the explosion of the first atomic bomb 37
near Alamogordo in New Mexico. 38 The Trinity crater, which Goro photographed from the air, was described as a “dark scar” 39 in the Jornada del
Muerto Desert with the panorama of the Sierra Oscura. He supplemented
this sublime perspective with spectacular closeups of the soil, which had
melted into a glass-like material. Goro used this so-called trinitite for his
autoradiography (Figure 8.4). He covered the negative with melted crater
Figure 8.4 Fritz Goro, Trinitite autoradiography.
Source: Life 19, no. 13 (September 24, 1945): 27, Fritz Goro/LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock.