Title from caption on object: “Japanese Photo Shows Hiroshima Devastation”

August 10, 1945

Satsuo Nakata

Artist, Japanese, 1920 - 1994

United Press International

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 20.4 × 25.3 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.390

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

United Press International, UK; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 72 / 66 [circled]; top left in black ink underlined: Nuclear Age; top left: 1(b); top right in graphite circled: 4; top right in blue crayon: 1; upper left in graphite: 23; upper center printed in purple ink on applied paper: LN 263391 US London bureau / JAPANESE PHOTO SHOWS HIROSHIMA DEVASTATION / HIROSHIMA, JAPAN: A view of the bomb centre area / after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city. In the / foreground can be seen the skeleton of a Catholic church. / 1st. September, 1945 PN / UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL; by unknown hand, center in red ink on applied paper: [illegible] P Nuclear Power; lower left in graphite: 36.87%; lower left UPI copyright stamp in purple ink; by unknown hand, bottom left in blue crayon: [illegible] Archive [?]

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