Carole Gallagher has published, exhibited, and lectured widely, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and honors, including a grant in 1988 from the MacArthur Foundation's Program on International Peace and Security. Gallagher's influential photographs and journalism concerning the nuclear weapons complex have been published most newspapers/magazines nationally/internationally. The Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City exhibited her early work from 1979 to 1981, and the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, & San Francisco Camerawork exhibited photos from "American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War" (The MIT Press, 1993; Random House, 1994). Chosen as one of the eight best books of the decade by American Photographer magazine, and one of the 100 most important books of the 20th Century by Counterpunch.
