In 1955 Edward Steichen selected Platnick 's picture of a slain soldier on Eniwetok for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man seen by 9 million visitors . The man rests face down with the back of his shirt ripped open , having slid to the bottom of a trench atop which his rifle is planted , bayonet-first , into the sand . Accompanying the photograph were the printed words of Sophocles ' rhetorical question ; ‘ Who is the slayer , who the victim ? Speak ! ’ . Cropped and enlarged as a tall ‘ exclamation-mark ’ at 228.7 × 81.3 cm , the photograph stood by the entrance to a darkened room which housed a giant back-lit colour transparency ( in the original in New York , replaced by a monochrome print at other venues ) of the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb test , also on Eniwetok Atoll
Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike
Ray Platnick