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Flash of Light, Wall of Fire The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire By The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire by The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History


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Featuring over one hundred photographs taken after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this book forces us to confront the human and environmental costs of nuclear war.

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire Summary

Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the immediate aftermath was documented by Japanese photographers. For the most part the images they produced were censored or confiscated, but many were preserved in secret. Some were published widely in Japan during the 1950s, though not in the United States. Later, prints and negatives were gathered by groups such as the Anti-Nuclear Photographers' Movement of Japan, whose collection is now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History. The center's Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photographs Archive consists of more than eight hundred photographs, over one hundred of which are seen here for the first time in an English-language publication.

To mark 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. Together these images serve as a visual record of nuclear destruction, the horrific effects of radiation exposure, and the mass suffering that ensued. A preface by Briscoe Center Executive Director Don Carleton, an essay by Michael B. Stoff, and an afterword by Japanese journalist Michiko Tanaka explore how the images were collected and preserved as well as how they helped provoke calls for peace and the abolishment of nuclear weapons.

About The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History is a research unit and public service component of the University of Texas at Austin that collects, preserves, and makes available documentary and material culture evidence encompassing key themes in US history.

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CIN1477321519G
9781477321515
1477321519
Flash of Light, Wall of Fire: Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Used - Good
Hardback
University of Texas Press
2020-08-06
256
N/A
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