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Beer Bottle After the Atomic Bomb Explosion

Beer Bottle After the Atomic Bomb Explosion

© Tomatsu Shomei

Beer Bottle After the Atomic Bomb Explosion
Beer Bottle After the Atomic Bomb Explosion
ArtistJapanese, 1930–2012
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Beer Bottle After the Atomic Bomb Explosion
  • from the series 11:02–Nagasaki
Date1961, printed later
PlaceNagasaki, Japan
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 13/16 × 15 7/16 in. (45.3 × 39.2 cm)
 Sheet: 23 5/16 × 19 5/8 in. (59.2 × 49.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.1170
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
DescriptionOne of the most influential postwar Japanese photographers, Shōmei Tōmatsu documented social shifts resulting from Japan’s rapid Westernization over the course of his lifetime. In the series 11:02—Nagasaki, made 16 years after the end of World War II, he documented the misshapen objects kept in a Nagasaki museum archive that reveal the deadly impact of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. on August 9, 1945, killing an estimated 70,000 people. The relics stand as a visceral surrogate for the human trauma, a visual reminder that, although the life of the city continued, it was forever changed.
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 16–March 27, 1994.

"Optical/Perceptual: Photographs from the Allan Chasanoff Collection," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, October 6, 2008–January 4, 2009.

"Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence," The Menil Collection, Houston, October 2, 2014–February 1, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil on sheet verso: '84
Signed in pencil on sheet verso

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Shomei Tomatsu