18,250 days after

18,250 days after

Hiroshima, August 6  1995, at 8:15 a.m.     (Foto Sayuri Yoshioka)    

Lightbox/Duratrans, 40x60”, 1995    

 

On the minute exactly 50 years after the detonation of the atomic bomb that killed at least 200,000 people in Hiroshima, an 'aerial' photograph was taken from the highest available vantage point (a hotel roof) with a 4x5” large format Sinar camera.

Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Nagasaki, August 9  1995 at 11:02 a.m.        (Foto Hideki Tani)

Lightbox/Duratrans, 40x60”, 1995

 

On the minute exactly 50 years after the detonation of the atomic bomb that killed at least 80,000 people in Nagasaki, an 'aerial' photograph was taken from the highest available vantage point (a hill) with a 4x5” large format Sinar camera.

Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York