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Hiroshima-Nagasaki Document 1961

Tomatsu, Shomei [Photographer]; Ken Domon [Photographer]; Juichi Nagano [Photographer]; orahiko Ogawa [Photographer; Yoshito Matsushige [Photographer]; Iri Maruki [Paintings]; Toshiko Maruki [Paintings]; Hideki Yukawa [Preface] Yuichiro Sasaki

[Tokyo]: The Japan Council Against A & H Bombs, 1961.

First edition. Publisher's off-white cloth stamped in black. Text in English. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, typical slight biopredation to black concentric circles on covers but less bad than many copies, sticker shadow to front board. Housed in slightly tidemarked slipcase, not the original cardboard slipcase. Lacking booklet.

A powerful photographic examination of the effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan by the United States in WWII-- the effects on the landscapes, structures, and human bodies, and even an evocation of the damage did to the mind. Features work by Shomei Tomatsu and Ken Domon. Cited in Parr & Badger's The Photobook. Item #140940145

Price: $3,500.00