¡Colores!; Chris P Tape 1; Art Museum 1

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · 1991

Patrick Nagatani talks with a group at his Nuclear Enchantment exhibition at the Albuquerque Art Museum. He shares his biography and describes growing up in the atomic age. (part 1). This is raw footage for "New Mexico's Nuclear Enchantment: Patrick Nagatani" #320. Kachinas mocking missiles, a hard rain of trinitite, an ominous glowing mesa, -- through elaborate photomontages, internationally renowned photographer Patrick Nagatani shares his vision of New Mexico’s nuclear enchantment. The result is a wry and poignant survey of New Mexico’s nuclear history and resulting environmental legacy. Of Japanese ancestry, Nagatani, discusses his inspirations and family background that make him indeed “a child of the nuclear age.”