# Robert Adams: Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant 1979-1983 - Hardcover

by **Robert Adams** (Photographer), **Joshua Chuang** (Editor)

**Imagining the losses of a nuclear accident**

One day in the early 1970s, Robert Adams (born 1937) and his wife saw from their home a column of smoke rise above the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, near Denver, Colorado. For an hour they watched the plume grow and experienced a sense of helplessness before what appeared to be a nuclear accident in progress. Ultimately it was announced that the fire was burning outside the plant, but Adams decided to try to picture what stood to be lost in a nuclear catastrophe. He photographed in Denver and its suburbs; the individuals shown were within hazardous proximity to the Rocky Flats Plant. The new Steidl edition of _Our Lives and Our Children_ presents an expanded sequence that retains the potent compactness of the first edition (out of print for nearly three decades).

**Number of Pages:** 160

**Dimensions:** 0.7 x 10.6 x 9.3 IN

**Publication Date:** April 24, 2018

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