Flash of light, wall of fire : Japanese photographs documenting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki / The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Hiroshima-shi--Pictorial works.

Atomic bomb victims.

Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Nagasaki-shi--Pictorial works.

Photograph collections.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photographs Archive (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History)--Photograph collections--Exhibitions.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photographs Archive (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History).

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History--Exhibitions.

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Pictorial works.

Hiroshima-shi (Japan).

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Pictorial works.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Japan--Hiroshima-shi.

Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Japanese photographs documenting the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In 1945, American forces authorized the release of photographs taken by Japanese citizens in the immediate aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many of these images survived as a result and became part of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photographs Archive, now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History. The archive consists of more than eight hundred photographs, over one hundred of which are collected here. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Briscoe Center in 2020 to be held on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the bombings, Flash of Light, Wall of Fire features the work of twenty-three Japanese photographers who risked their lives to capture the devastation. These harrowing images serve as visual documentation of nuclear blast damage and destruction, the burnt human flesh, the horrific after effects of radiation, and the mass human suffering that ensued. An introductory essay from Michael B. Stoff and an afterword by Japanese journalist Michiko Tanaka--who grew up in post-war Hiroshima--explore how the images were obtained and how they helped provoke calls for peace and the abolishment of nuclear weapons."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface / by Don Carleton

Hiroshima

Picturing disaster: The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Photograph Collection / by Michael B. Stoff

Nagasaki

Afterword / by Michiko Tanaka.

ISBN:

9781477321515

1477321519

OCLC:

1150029703

Publisher Number:

99986332690