Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

391 c   (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 3 1 / 2 x4 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. 392 c   (WORLDWAR II, KOREANAND VIETNAM WARS) Pair of binders containing a total of 21 press photographs, comprising 9 of the Vietnam War, 10 of World War II, and 2 of Korea. Includes images depicting wounded Marines and soldiers in Vietnam, captured Vietcong prisoners, plus MacArthur at the start of the Leyte Invasion, airplanes f lying on D-Day, a retouched print of the Battle of Midway, the wounded on Marshalls Island, and more. Ferrotyped silver prints, the images measuring from 5 3 / 4 x7 3 / 4 to 9 1 / 2 x7 1 / 2 inches (14.6x19.7 to 24.1x19.1 cm.), and the reverse, most with mimeographed captions, hand stamps and/or penciled notations on verso; one is retouched. 1943-69 [1,200/1,800] 391 392