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A very different view of the times from Japan by a Photographer documenting Nagasaki. It has become a traveling Photographic Exhibit and is as powerful when viewing as anything one will ever see. Adams and Lange worked in the US - within the system even as they documented with images that could not be published at the time. Yamahata worked within the system to document what happened in Nagasaki - within 24 hours of the Bombing. Later the book and exhibits.
Too easy to get into politics and polemic - so look at the images on both sides and see what they document. How the photographers worked with the access they had at the time. The resulting images are what we have - for whatever purpose one assigns them. On both sides of the Pacific the stories are powerfully told in Photographs and document a reality we still live with. No matter the arguments and discussions, we have the images. The power of the Image comes through.
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