Source/original version of Super-Kamiokande Photo

March 4, 2015 5:17 PM

This is one of my favourite photos ever. A worker bowing their head in front of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector, in Japan. I recently came across it again after many internet years, but can't find a larger - or the original - version. Any ideas?
posted by 0bvious to Science & Nature (5 answers total)

I don't know if this will help, but it looks to me as though the person is arching backwards to look up rather than facing foward and bowing.
posted by Kerasia at 5:54 PM on March 4, 2015

Looks like the 2005-2006 work to me...

Best place to look would be the official photo gallery, which seems to be down at the moment:
http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/index-e.html

Not sure why, or how long it's been down.
posted by cgs06 at 5:59 PM on March 4, 2015

Internet archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110827094737/http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/index-e.html

Close, but not quite:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120920100515/http://www-sk.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sk/gallery/wme/PH19-water-supply-1-wm.JPG

(probably same series.)
posted by cgs06 at 6:02 PM on March 4, 2015

Cool photo. It's long shot, but perhaps folks at the AIP Library & Archives might be able to help? There aren't any images of Super-K in the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, but they might be able to point you in the right direction....
posted by Westringia F. at 7:38 PM on March 4, 2015

if you can get it to come up in google image search, there's an option for 'search by image', then 'more sizes'
posted by sexyrobot at 12:52 AM on March 5, 2015