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To Snare the Sun

Bradley Landenberger

Friday, March 07 - 10:00AM to 10:30AM
Tuscany 10

I was raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town secretly built in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project. Growing up in East Tennessee, I became aware of an unchecked masculinity embodied through contact sports, rugged individualism, Southern family values, and the atomic bomb's legacy. My town's culture was relentlessly focused on projecting strength, yet it was this very emphasis that made those who fell outside of that expectation feel weak. To Snare the Sun is a series of photographs that explore the creation of the atomic bomb as a stand-in for American masculinity and hubris in my hometown.

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