Re: Never-before-published photos of Hiroshima         


Author: Michael Ejercito
Date: May 4, 2008 15:14

On May 3, 10:09 pm, "A Complex Messiah" mypacks.net>
wrote:
> Photos of Hiroshima from the Robert L. Capp Collection
>
> The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains
> ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath
> of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese
> photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave
> outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the
> occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these
> dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by
> the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with
> the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these
> photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp
> family. Now that the restriction is no longer in force, the entire set is
> available below.
Who would have thought that atomic bombs can be so deadly?

Michael
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