Elin O'hara Slavick Hiroshima: a Visual Record
Volume 7 | Issue 30 | Number 3 | Article ID 3196 | Jul 27, 2009 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Hiroshima: A Visual Record elin o'Hara slavick Hiroshima: A Visual Record as a result of the bomb. This registry is central to the large Peace Memorial Park that houses 広島ーー視覚的記録 the Peace Memorial Museum, countless monuments, and a Hall of Remembrance, all elin o'Hara slavick situated in the heart of downtown Hiroshima. It has been over 60 years since the atomic bomb On August 6, 1945, the United States of was dropped, but the A-bomb is everywhere in America dropped an atomic bomb fueled by Hiroshima. enriched uranium on the city of Hiroshima. 70,000 people died instantly. Another 70,000 The enormity of Hiroshima challenges the died by the end of 1945 as a result of exposure artist, especially the American artist, in ethical to radiation and other related injuries. Scores and formal ways. For several years I worked on of thousands would continue to die from the a series of anti-war drawings of places the effects of the bomb over subsequent decades. United States has bombed, subsequently Despite the fact that the U.S. is the only nation published as the book Bomb After Bomb: A to have used atomic weapons against another Violent Cartography, (Charta, Milan, Italy, nation, Americans have had little access to the 2007), with a foreword by former U.S. air force visual record of those attacks. For decades the bombardier and radical historian Howard Zinn. U.S. suppressed images of the bomb's effects After making relatively abstract drawings from on the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as the bomber's aerial perspective that include no they did the images of sixty-four other cities people – civilians, victims, soldiers or otherwise that were firebombed in the final months of the – I have now been on the ground, 60 years after war.
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