Hiroshima-Nagasaki Document 1961

Various photographers
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Document 1961

Photographs: Juhichi Nagano, Ken Domon, Shogo Nagaoka, Shomei Tomatsu, Torahiko Ogawa, Yoshito Matsushige, Yuichiro Sasaki

Publisher: The Japan Council Against the A and H Bombs, Tokyo

142 pages

Pictures: 92

Year: 1961

Comments: Hardcover, cloth bound in cardboard slipcase, including 2 booklets, nicely print in a rich gravure printing. One in English and one in Japanese. In very good condition other some fading on the back of the slipcase and some foxing on the English booklet. The book itself is in very good condition. Cited in Parr & Badger's The Photobook. INSCRIBED COPY. RARE.

This landmark book of photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was designed by Sugiura Kohei and Awazu Kiyoshi. Accompanying the bound publication (intended primarily for the American market) is a printed booklet with facts about the devastating effect of nuclear radiation on human and plant life. Its purpose is to "arouse in its reader such emotions as will guide and encourage them in their efforts for peaceful progress toward those goals to which we all aspire."

RARE Copy signed by Koen Shigemori, one of the book's contributors, photography critic and one of the founders of Tokyo College Photography, to Motoki Tsuda, an independent publisher.