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“New York Nightmare: Air-burst Atomic Bombs Make Cities in the Northeast Obsolete...” by John Carlton, 1949. The sheer impossibility of photographing the future did not stop picture editors from fabricating speculative representations of things to come. In the decades following the detonation of “Little Boy” at Hiroshima, Japan, the era’s technological optimism was shadowed by a profound fear of nuclear devastation. This photo illustration from the archives of London’s Daily Herald gives striking visual form to the pervasive doomsday anxiety of the atomic age. (Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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