Bravo 20. The Bombing of the American West Baltimore; London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Oblong quarto. 133 pp. Softcover, original wraps. A fine copy, as new. Signed by the photographer and author on title page.
"In 1952 the U.S. Navy began illegally testing high-explosive bombs on an enormous expanse of public land in northwestern Nevada. The land had long been sacred to the Northern Paiute Indians, who called it the 'Source of Creation.' The Navy called it "Bravo 20'... Award-winning landscape photographer Richard Misrach gained access to the area using an 1872 mining law to claim a tract of land at the heart of the bombing range. The result of his efforts is a breathtaking collection of full-color photographs that capture both the natural beauty and the manmade devastation unique to this remote Nevada landscape."
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