Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara Illustration so unique as beautiful

so unique as beautiful

The illusion of space is achieved when receding lines that establish spatial relationships converge at a central vanishing point

and define unambiguously the context

Prompted by this desire to render the landscape objective

Exploring a range of photographic styles and genres

Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara Illustration so unique as beautifulBetween 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara, whose natural resources were being extracted in the process. This secret nuclear weapons programme, whose archives are still classified, occurred during and after the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (195462). This publication brings