Nagasaki: 11:02. August 9, 1945. Tokyo, 1995. English by Tomatsu. Additional text, 'Excerpts from the Living,' by Samako Fukada. Stiff wrappers with photo-illustrated dust jacket. Printed obi (belly band). Numerous black-and-white reproductions. Glassine protector [visible in illustration]. Text in Japanese and English.
A nice reprint of Tomatsu's 1968 masterpiece. Nagasaki 110:02 is one of four books that make up the most significant photographic memorials to the August 1945 atomic bomb blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the others are Kikuji Kawada's The Map; Ken Domon's Hiroshima; and Domon and Tomatsu's Hiroshima-Nagasaki Document 1961). A seminal work in the history of postwar Japanese photography and, more generally, the evolution of documentary technique away from direct and literal storytelling into a more allusive and personal, even when dealing with an event as immense as the atomic bomb.
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