Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata<
Background
The photographs in Nagasaki Journey have been printed from a completely new
set of digitally-restored negatives. While some of Yosuke Yamahata's
photographs have been seen publicly in the fifty years since the bombing,
this will be the first comprehensive exhibition of the archive, and its first
publication outside of Japan. In the context of other public commemorations,
including The Last Act exhibition planned by the Smithsonian Institution, but radically changed due to controversy,
this is be the only exhibition that focuses on the scenes of human
devastation within the hypocenter, before the dead were removed and the
rubble cleared.
Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata provides us with an
unflinching look at the scene of an event that changed the course of history;
it is an indispensible reminder of the human consequences of the atomic
bombings of Japan, and of the nuclear threat that continues to this day.