An Electronic Book

Copyright © 1997 by Andrew Looney


Two of my favorite photography collections are The Red Couch: A Portrait of America, and The Love Book. The former features a large red couch that is carted around the country and photographed in settings ranging from the window-washer's platform high up on the side of a skyscraper, to an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf Coast. The Love Book centers on a red and yellow plywood sign reading "LOVE". Bob Rosenheck traveled around the country, taking pictures of people holding this little sign capturing, among many others, Mikhail Gorbachev, Orpah Winfry, Bob Hope, Spinal Tap, and Bill Clinton.

The Atomic Bomb project is the same sort of thing. When we first got married, we thought it would be neat to get a guest registry and have everyone who visited us sign in, kind of like at a wedding. We were wrong, it wasn't very neat. So we chewed on the idea for a while and decided that in order to make it neat, we'd need to take pictures of everyone who visited us and tack 'em up on the wall like they do in Saturn dealerships. To make sure this effort would be neat, the photos would feature our guests doing something they couldn't do anywhere else: Pressing the button on an armed Atomic Bomb. (As American Citizens, we have the constitutional right to bear arms, and we at Wunderland have taken this right to its logical conclusion: a nuclear weapon.)

There's a limited amount of space available for the bomb photo wall at Wunderland.Earth. Each time it fills up, we take all the photos down and start over. This book mirrors the photos that are on the wall right now. The current wall, #3, is about one third full at this time. (For wall #4, we plan to begin photographing our friends with our atomic bomb in the midst of their own living rooms, rather like another of my favorite photography collections, Material World: A Global Family Portrait.)


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Amy Whelan Aug 1997
Andrew Plotkin Jun 1997
Andy Looney Jun 1997
Angie Seckinger Jul 1997
Annaliese Moyer Aug 1997
Arthur Prokosch May 1998
Barbara Hickey Apr 1998
Ben May 1998
Bethany Ramirez May 1998
Brian Plunkette May 1998
Butch Powell Jul 1997
Byron Amstutz Jul 1997
Ches Looney Nov 1997
Cindi Cullis Mar 1998
Cindi's Husband Feb 1998
CJ Shamas Apr 1998
Dania May 1998
Dave Shaw Aug 1997
Deb Amstutz Jul 1997
Diane Martin Aug 1997
Dustan Levenstein Dec 1997
Edward Lucas May 1998
Elaine Wunderlich Jul 1997
Erasmo Ramos Apr 1998
Erin Jones May 1998
Evil Dave Argentar Jul 1997
Frank Cooper Jul 1997
Frank Kanach Jun 1997
Geneva James May 1998
Geoff Hicks Sep 1997
Gina Mai Denn Jun 1997
Greykell Dutton Feb 1998
Heidi Jones Mar 1998
Ian Shuman May 1998
Jake Davenport Sep 1997
Jane Walker Jun 1997
Janet Morton Jul 1997
Jeff Whelan Aug 1997
Jenelle Levenstein Dec 1997
Jim Risner Jul 1997
Joe Naab Jun 1997
John Cooper Jun 1997
John Montrie Jun 1997
John Nelson Dec 1997
Jon Amigo Jul 1997
Julia Tenney Oct 1997
Karl Cooper Aug 1997
Kat Dutton Jun 1997
Kathy Class Feb 1998
Kevin Wilson Jul 1997
Kit Cooper Jul 1997
Kristin Looney Nov 1997
Laura Spaulding Jul 1997
Leah Spevak Jul 1997
Lee Moyer Jul 1997
Lisa Norwalk Sep 1997
Lori Denn Jun 1998
Margaret Collins Jun 1997
Margie White Nov 1997
Marlene Bruce Jul 1997
Marv Wunderlich Jul 1997
Meg Jun 1997
Michael Hickey Apr 1998
Michelle Isaacs Jul 1997
Mom Hickey Apr 1998
Nedialko Petrov Dec 1997
Neva Eylar Jun 1997
Nik Dutton Jun 1997
Ozzie Risner Jul 1997
Paul Makinen May 1998
Psyche May 1998
Rash Looney Sep 1997
Renee Camus Jun 1997
Rob Bryan Jun 1997
Robin Nov 1997
Rochelle Myers May 1998
Ruth Levenstein Dec 1997
Ruth Looney Nov 1997
Scott MacLarty May 1998
Sheldon Levenstein Dec 1997
Stacy Marders Jun 1997
Stefano Cerutti Feb 1998
Sue Spurr Feb 1998
Tom Cooper Jun 1997
William Cooper Jul 1997

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