Nov 11, 2008

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

An excellent article tracing a collection of rare, clinical photos documenting Hiroshima. (via.)

It’s tempting to see the fate of these photographs as something close to metaphor. Twice abandoned, twice rescued; the photographs, like Hiroshima itself, is a subject we would prefer to discard but can’t. As one of the concluding acts of the last “good war” the atomic bombing of Hiroshima initiated a more morally ambiguous era, one of increased uncertainty and fear.
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