Atomic-Bomb Dome, Ceiling Stain of Blood.
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)
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
Explore Further
Department
PhotographyObject Type
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 •
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.
Kawada Kikuji
1960–1965, printed 1989
Gelatin silver print with toning
2010.1896
Frazier King
2001, printed November 7, 2010
Gelatin silver print with selenium toning
2012.351
Barbara Norfleet
1988
Gelatin silver print with toning
91.1410
Shomei Tomatsu
1961, printed 1969
Gelatin silver print
2011.243
Shomei Tomatsu
1961, printed later
Gelatin silver print
91.1170
Mariana Cook
September 25, 2005
Gelatin silver print with selenium toning
2025.799
Irving Penn
1969, printed 1991
Gelatin silver print with selenium toning
94.747
Irving Penn
April 15, 1999, printed May 1999
Gelatin silver print with selenium toning
2001.322