Research Catalog
Hiroshima : Ground Zero 1945
- Title
- Hiroshima : Ground Zero 1945 / edited by Erin Barnett and Philomena Mariani, with essays by John W. Dower, Adam Harrison Levy and David Monteyne.
- Author
- Barnett, Erin.
- Publication
- New York : International Center of Photography ; Göttingen : Steidl, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TR820.5 .H57 2011q Oversize | Off-site |
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- Description
- 247 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 30 cm
- Summary
- After the United States detonated an atomic bomb at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the U.S. government restricted the circulation of images of the bomb's deadly effect. President Truman dispatched some 1,150 military personnel and civilians, including photographers, to record the destruction as part of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. The goal of the Survey's Physical Damage Division was to photograph and analyze methodically the impact of the atomic bomb on various building materials surrounding the blast site, the first "Ground Zero." The haunting, once-classified images of absence and annihilation formed the basis for civil defense architecture in the United States. This exhibition includes approximately 60 contact prints drawn from a unique archive of more than 700 photographs in the collection of the International Center of Photography. The exhibition is organized by Erin Barnett, Assistant Curator of Collections.
- Alternative Title
- Ground Zero 1945
- Subject
- International Center of Photography > Catalogs
- International Center of Photography
- Documentary photography > Japan > Hiroshima-shi
- Architectural photography > Japan > Hiroshima-shi
- Nuclear warfare > Japan > Pictorial works
- Architectural photography
- Documentary photography
- Nuclear warfare
- Social conditions
- Kernwaffe
- Photographie
- Dokumentarphotographie
- Motiv
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Pictorial works
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > Social conditions > Pictorial works
- Japan
- Japan > Hiroshima-shi
- Hiroshima
- Genre/Form
- catalogs (documents)
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works.
- Catalogs.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogues.
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the International Center of Photography, May 20-Aug. 28, 2011.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 6-7).
- Contents
- Introduction -- Note to the reader -- Ground zero -- Hiroshima: lost and found / Adam Harrison Levy -- GZ1000 -- GZ2000 -- GZ3000 -- Science, technocracy, beauty, and idealistic annihilation / John W. Dower -- GZ4000 -- GZ5000 -- GZ6000 -- GZ7000+ -- The legacy of Hiroshima in civil defense and architecture / David Monteyne.
- ISBN
- 9783869303345
- 3869303344
- OCLC
- ocn740495499
- 740495499
- SCSB-1686490
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library