Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata
A photography exhibition touring internationally 1995-1996
The UCR/California Museum of Photography will present Nagasaki Journey: The
Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata September 16 through November 19, 1995. This exhibition, organized by IDG Films, presents sixty photographs taken in
Nagasaki on August 10, 1945, the day after the atomic bombing of that city.
The exhibition will be shown as part of the world's observance of the
fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima-to be
remembered world-wide in the summer of 1995.
The exhibition comes to the CMP after an unprecedented, simultaneous three-city opening in
late July, 1995 at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, the
International Center of Photography, New York, and Chitose Pia Hall,
Nagasaki.
Nagasaki Journey features the archive of Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese army
photographer who documented the immediate aftermath of the atomic explosion
at Nagasaki. Mr. Yamahata's photographs constitute the most extensive
photographic record of the atomic bombings of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
The main components of the exhibition are:
- sixty photographs taken by the late Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata in Nagasaki on August 10, 1945;
- a twenty-six minute film by Christopher Beaver and Judy Irving, Emmy
award-winning producers of the film Dark Circle;
- a 128-page book published by Pomegranate Artbooks, CA., featuring a foreword by the noted author and professor of psychiatry Robert Jay Lifton.
- Visit the High Energy Weapons archive, moved from Australia to Finland for political reasons.
- For more Web resources, there is a vast array of information on Nagasaki and the bombings.
- There is also a parallel to the exhibition, via the Web, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Additionally, the Museum is organizing an on-line exhibition from its collections depicting Nagasaki 50 years before the war. This combination of hand-colored albumen prints made by professional Japanese photographers and albums by American missionaries offers a look at Japan at a turning point in its cultural and political history.
This collection of albums donated by George Barker, Banning, CA.
Nagasaki Journey features the archive of Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese army
photographer who documented the immediate aftermath of the atomic explosion
at Nagasaki. Mr. Yamahata's photographs constitute the most extensive
photographic record of the atomic bombings of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.