Panos + Mary

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

Black swan theory is a metaphor to describe rare events of major impact, hard or impossible to predict. Our past and future is just a pile of black swans.

Original images (here shown fragmented) originate  from: Vietnam - segregation (Black Power handshake) -  bombs & explosives, Overseas Weekly photographs, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Rec. Num.: 2014c35.632  (Object view).

The Dust Bowl was a period of environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, and unleashed massive and deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world.

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

One of the largest transfers of Sahara dust to Crete, Greece occurred on March 22, 2018.

Synthetic image.

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

Laboratory cultivation.

Medicine packaging. Modern recreation (fictional) of Comet Pills, sold by con artists during the great comet scare of 1910. Object created by Panos +Mary (Object view)

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

The picture is a product of Focus Stacking  (Object view).

Folded newspaper page. The New York Times, September 12, 2001, p. 7. First publication of “Falling Man” by photographer Richard Drew. Digital scan.

Based on popular representations in 19th and early 20th centuries, black clay (object view).

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

"Foolish fire". Digital painting over photograph.

“A person produced only about half an okka (640 grams) of ashes” From a letter of Marcel Nadjary, a Greek Jew in Auschwitz. One of the buried Sonderkommando manuscripts found.

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

Fictional representation.

Reconstructed image from raw satellite data. On October 3, 2013 a boat full of migrants sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa resulting in the death of 363 passengers. Satellite pass over Lampedusa. 10:35 (UTC), October 3, 2013. Reconstructed from raw MODIS/Terra Calibrated Radiances 5-Min L1B Swath 500m V006, 550nm. Data were acquired from the Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive & Distribution System (LAADS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), located in the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland (https://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/). Projection algorithm development and application by Panos + Mary.

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

Manipulated image.

Duck and Cover was a suggested method, by the United States government, of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion from the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s.

Composite image.