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Robert Del Tredici is a photographer and artist who has been teaching cinema history and the art of animated film at Concordia University in Montreal since the early 1970s. He has also been documenting the nuclear age since 1979. His first book, The People of Three Mile Island, covered America’s worst nuclear accident. His next book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, documented the US nuclear weapons complex. In 1987, he founded the Atomic Photographers Guild. Del Tredici continues to document the nuclear industry, photograph film directors, and document the musical culture of Montreal. He has exhibited his portraits and documentary work in Vienna, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Hiroshima, Washington, Hong Kong, Chelyabinsk (Russia), Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.
He writes: ‘I plan a visual talk that combines art and social action. I intend to show examples of my photography, landscape drawing, collage work, and book illustration. In photography I will emphasize my three decades of work documenting the nuclear age, including my founding of The Atomic Photographers Guild. My collage work consists in a series of images done over two years in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. My book illustrations include over 100 images created for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. I began these in the mid-1960s and continue illustrating this book today.’
All the Warheads in the US Nuclear Arsenal at the height of the Cold War. Art Installation by Barbara Donachy of Denver. Photograph by Robert Del Tredici. Taken February 13, 1985. Gelatin Silver Print (16" x 20").
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Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca