Lot 391
391 •(NAGASAKI & SASEBO, JAPAN)
Group of 100 plus photographs by an American military photographer depicting the epicenter and periphery of the second atomic bomb explosion a mere 8 months after the devastating event.
With photographs recording the devastation and clean up, scenes of bicyclists and pedestrians resuming normal life, orphaned children, aerial views of the region, and scenes of Sasebo's harbor, which is chock-a-block with naval vessels. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring 3½x4 5/8 inches (8.9x11.7 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, most with a handwritten caption in the negative. 1946
[600/900]
An uncommon group of photographs that record how these two Japanese cities, which were bombed by the U.S., recovered once the war was over. (Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on August 9th.) Several of the prints are dated April 1946.
