Eleven years ago, a suitcase containing 700 photographs of post-bomb Hiroshima was found on a street corner near Boston. They are previously classified images taken by the U.S. government and document the architectural and structural effect of the first use of the atomic bomb. How did they end up on a street corner? What do they say about Hiroshima and its legacy in terms of photographic depictions of war, urban design, and cultural memory? ICP Curator Erin Barnett and Adam Harrison Levy, author of the essay "Hiroshima: Lost and Found" from the book Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 tell the story of these haunting urban portraits. Barnett organized ICP's Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945 exhibition and co-edited the accompanying catalogue.
2011-07-20 12:30 PM