Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945, a selection of 62 once-classified US government vintage prints of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, is now on view at ICP. Learn how 700 of these photographs became part of the ICP’s Photography Collection here:
You can read more about their journey to ICP here and here. The exhibition catalogue, edited by Philomena Mariani and Erin Barnett, features 250 images as well as essays by John W. Dower, Adam Harrison Levy, and David Monteyne.
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Where can I see those pictures on the web? Are you US citizens to permit this bomb again? please do something.
You can see ICP’s collection of images from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of Hiroshima here: http://emuseum.icp.org/view/people/asitem/id/3260