Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 - Hardcover

Erin Barnett; Philomena Mariani

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3869303344 ISBN 13: 9783869303345

Publisher: Steidl, 2011

Synopsis

On 6 August 1945, the US government dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This was the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon, and along with the bombing of Nagasaki three days later, heralded the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. After the dust had settled, President Truman dispatched military personnel and civilians to photograph the destruction. Nearly seventy years later, Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 presents a selection of these once confidential images alongside critical texts. 1,100 photographs were taken, and 865 of them published in the classified report The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (1947). Today, 700 of these images are part of the permanent collection at the International Center of Photography. Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 is testament to this shameful, haunting episode of the twentieth century and the role of documentary photography within it, and is the latest phase in ICPs ongoing investigation of the unacknowledged histories of photography.

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Hiroshima On 6 August 1945, the US government dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This was the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon, and along with the bombing of Nagasaki three days later, heralded the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. After the dust had settled, President Truman dispatched military personnel and civilians to photograph the destruction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Steidl
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3869303344
• ISBN 13: 9783869303345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248