Asahi Camera Special Issue 9 HIROSHIMA

A photobook by Hiromi Tsuchida. It is a compilation of Tsuchida's Hiroshima trilogy, originally published as Asahi Camera special issue 9, into a single volume.

This book is composed of three parts: "Hiroshima Collection," "Hiroshima 1945-1979," and "Hiroshima Monument." "Hiroshima Collection" features photographs of belongings of atomic bomb survivors and atomic bomb materials housed in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. In "Hiroshima 1945-1979," Tsuchida revisits people who contributed essays to "Children of the A-Bomb," an anthology of atomic bomb experiences published in 1951. "Hiroshima Monument" documents street trees, bridges, and buildings that are embedded in the landscape of Hiroshima City.

Tsuchida records the atomic bomb materials not as symbols emphasizing tragedy, but as quiet monochrome photographs of clothing, lunchboxes, daily necessities, and traces of buildings. There is an attitude of observing the existence of the materials themselves, rather than excessive emotional expression or explanation. The concrete time preserved in each object and the landscape of the current city. He uses photography to ascertain the distance between them.

Present-day Hiroshima continues its daily life as one of Japan's cities. The events that once happened there are less visible from the city's surface. This book traces those less visible memories through materials, testimonies, and landscapes. It is an important book for considering post-war Japan, documentary photography, atomic bomb materials, and the memory of the city.

Contributors include Shunsuke Tsurumi, Taeko Tomioka, and others. Art direction by Kunio Onizawa, design by Taku Tanabe.

[Title] HIROSHIMA
[Publisher] Asahi Shimbun Publishing
[Publication Date] September 5, 1983
[Page Count] 306 pages
[Size] Approx. 207 x 258 x 14mm / 905g
[Format] Softcover
[Language] Japanese
[Series] Asahi Camera Special Issue 9
[Title Reading] HIROSHIMA
[Author/Editor, etc.] Hiromi Tsuchida/Author, Shunsuke Tsurumi/Contributor, Taeko Tomioka/Contributor, Kunio Onizawa/Art Direction, Taku Tanabe/Design, Teigo Aikawa/Editor, Sadao Ebata/Editor
[Printing] Toppan Printing/Printer
[ISBN] -
[Condition] Used [6] Good to Fair (minor damage to the spine of the front and back covers, minor age-related tanning on all three edges)
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Hiromi Tsuchida (born 1939)

Born in Fukui Prefecture. Photographer.

Graduated from Fukui University, Faculty of Engineering. After leaving Pola Cosmetics, he became a freelancer in 1971. He taught at Tokyo College of Photography from 1971 to 1996 and served as a professor at Osaka University of Arts from 2000 to 2013.

He continues to create works on the themes of rapid economic growth, festivals, folk culture, cities, and the transformation of post-war Japan. Around 1975, he began photographing Hiroshima, a city affected by the atomic bomb, and has long documented atomic bomb materials in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, atomic bomb survivors, and traces of the city.

His major works include "Zokushin," "Hiroshima," "Suna o Kazoeru," "Hiroshima Monument II," "BERLIN," "Fukushima 2011-2017," and "Aging."

His major awards include the Taiyo Award (1972), Ina Nobuo Award, Japan Professional Photographers Society Award (1984), and Domon Ken Award (2008).

His major collections are held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, National Gallery of Canada, Tate Modern, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, among others.

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