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Concerning the Image Archive of a Nuclear Research Center
Susanne Kriemann/Judith Milz/Friederike Schäfer/Klaus Nippert/Elke Leinenweber

520 pp.

with 600 black-white and 800 colour illustrations

thread-sewn softcover



Leipzig November, 2021
ISBN: 9783959054768

Width: 20 cm
Length: 27 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
Susanne Kriemann, Judith Milz, Friederike Schäfer, Klaus Nippert, Elke Leinenweber

Designer
Moritz Appich, Cécile Kobel

Unknown lady in the radiation protection department, puddle, dancing couple in costume, damage to a waste drum, retiree send-off, lead shielding, burnt-out glovebox, scorpion with microchip—these are all captions to photographs of Germany’s first major nuclear research facility. In 1957, professional photographers began to make an on-site record of procedures at the Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KfK, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center). In 2017, the decision was made to digitize ten percent of this image archive. Based on current concerns regarding the whereabouts of contaminated nuclear waste, the publication brings together over thirty perspectives from the fields of art, sociology, politics, and science as well as accounts  of people who were directly involved with the facility. "10%. Concerning the Image Archive of a Nuclear Research Center" sets out to delineate and visualize the afterlife of  nuclear research.

 

With texts by: Susan Schuppli, Manuela Gantner, Karena Kalmbach, Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun & Rayna Teneva, Paul Koch, Fischer & El Sani, Martin Repohl, Carmela Thiele, Hangyan Chen, u.a.

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