“So, as with photography, around the onset of the second half of the nineteenth-century, blasting by physical, chemical (or much later nuclear) explosives became one of the fastest-growing lines of business in recent history.” from “Wonderful to Watch. Some Notes on Ruin Lust and Creative Destruction in/of Photographic Realism” by Lars Willumeitt published in Andrea Botto, “KA-BOOM The Explosion of Landscape”, Editions Bessard, Paris 2017 #kaboom #photobook #andreabotto #parisphoto #explosion #contemporaryart #editionsbessard #artistbook #dynamite #blackandwhite #hands #study #photography #blasting #history #reenacting #ArtOfPerfection