Atomic-Bomb Dome, Ceiling Stain of Blood.

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Artist Kawada Kikuji(Japanese, born 1933)Japanese, born 1933

CultureJapanese

Titles

Atomic-Bomb Dome, Ceiling Stain of Blood.
from the series The Map

Date1959–1965, printed 1989

Place depictedHiroshima, Japan

MediumGelatin silver print with selenium toning

DimensionsImage: 6 11/16 × 10 15/16 in. (17 × 27.8 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 14 7/8 in. (30.5 × 37.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2014.708

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceArtist, 1989; Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan, 2013; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2014
Published References The Map, 1965. The Map, 2005. New Japanese Photography, 1974. Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960s, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. VIVO Six Japanese Photographers, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1978. 1955–1965 Photography, Yamaguchi Prefectual Museum of Art, 1991. Beyond Japan: A Photo Theatre, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1991. Japanese Photographers 33 Kikuji Kawada, Iwanami Shoten, 1998. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on sheet verso in pencil: 173 print with Agfa

Unsigned

Blind stamped on sheet recto: KIKUJI KAWADA • PHOTOGRAPHED •

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