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ART REVIEW : ‘Nagasaki’: Oblique Photos Provide Impact
RIVERSIDE — The 50th anniversary of America’s victory in the Second World War and the nuclear holocaust it cost Japan are being variously commemorated. The horrors of war are ritually denounced once again. The sacrifice of brave young soldiers and wise, troubled leaders is praised. That is as it should be. Yet none of it cut quite so close to the bone for me as a traveling exhibition now on view at UC Riverside’s California Museum of Photography, “Nagasaki Journey.”
It presents for the first time together some 60 photographs taken in what was left of Nagasaki on Aug. 10, , the morning after a nuclear device was dropped from an American B bomber named Bock’s Car. The photographer was a year-old Japanese soldier, Yosuke Yamahata. His superiors dispatched him to the site to “photograph the situation so as to be as useful as possible for military propaganda.” To Yamahata’s undying credit he was so horrified by what he saw he never delivered the pictures.
What happened when the Nagasaki bomb detonated is well-known. About 75, people at the blast’s hypocenter were killed instantly, pulverized to dust. As many more died later of burns and various forms of radiation sickness. Knowing all this in advance should reasona
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If it is a rarity in our society to experience death in its moment, our mediated selves consume it daily through TV and film. Ever since Viet Nam, our living rooms have been the sites of death and destruction.
Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata
By David L. Jacobs, Afterimage, Summer,
Where adults see grays, young children seem able to recognize and deal with death with disarming aplomb. They are drawn to the look and feel of death, and want to explore it as avidly as their own sexuality. Charles Dickens&#;s Little Nell was completely at ease with her famous mid-nineteenth-century illness, strung out over months when The Old Curiosity Shop was published, chapter by chapter from to , and read avidly by most of the literate population of England. Nell thought only of others, and never of her own malady; she was the epitome of the selfless, childhood angel, ready to meet her Maker. The adult reading population, on the other hand, held their breath for what they hoped wasn&#;t the inevitable, and many implored Dickens to spare her. They wanted to defy in fiction what could not be denied in real life, which is understandable given the mortality rates of the period. In Manchester, England, for example, 57 out of every children died before the age of five in ,
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