ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses modes of tracing and memorializing through an analysis of artistic productions that investigate and reflect on nuclear legacies. It focuses on the physical presence of radiation in the photographic technique and examines images by photographers who included intended and unintended effects of radiation in the photographic process. These works comprise not only photographers’ engagements with the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents but also other artistic productions after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima as well as the Trinity test in the United States of America. Discussing the work of selected photographers, this chapter explores traces and images of radiation and modes of witnessing in the materialities of photography in its encounters with radiation.
