A life-sized statue of the official photographer for the Manhattan Project has been unveiled in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Unveiled this week, the statue of Ed Westcott stands six feet, six inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. It sits outside the Oak Ridge History Museum, which has long relied on Westcott’s photographs of the city — a city built during World War II specifically for the development of the atomic bomb. “He was the only one in the early days able to have a camera,” Don Hunnicutt, vice president of the Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association and museum historian, tells WATE . “He was just the type of person who would be able to take a photograph and tell a story.” Westcott’s extensive photos documenting Oak Ridge were once classified, but roughly 5,000 of his negatives are looked after by the National Archives in Washington. Atomic Energy Commission Patrol K-25, Oak Ridge, 1947. | Photo by Ed Westcott Arguably his most famous photo is a 1946 portrait of J.…