Nagasaki the Day After
YAMAHATA, YOSUKE AND SHOGO
Nagasaki the Day After PHOTOGRAPHS BY YOSUKE YAMAHATA ©1995 SHOGO YAMAHATA South of Matsuyama-machi, near the epicenter, early afternoon. The painter, Eiji Yamada, stands to the left. He is...
...Mother breastfeeding, in front of Michino-o station (3.6 kilometers north of the epicenter), around 3:00 P.M...
...The younger brother died six days later...
...He was accompanied by a writer and a painter...
...He is sketching the devastation...
...Just before the American military occupation imposed censorship regulations (including a seven-year ban on photographing or publishing photos of atomic bomb sites) five of these photographs were released to Japanese newspapers...
...Older brother with younger brother on his back, near Nagasaki station (2.3 kilometers south/southeast of the epicenter), 7:00 A.M...
...The mother nurses her baby while waiting her turn for first-aid treatment...
...When news came that a new type of bomb had been dropped on Nagasaki, he was sent to Nagasaki to provide documentation...
...According to The New York Times, the photograph of the mother breastfeeding her baby raised objections and was deleted during an early round of cuts to the exhibition...
...An exhibit of sixty of his father's photographs entitled, "Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata," opens simultaneously in late July at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography in San Francisco, the International Center for Photography in New York City, and Chitose Pia Hall, in Nagasaki...
...Shogo Yamahata...
...The rest were not shown until August 1952, when the book Atomized Nagasaki was published...
...According to the mother, the baby sucked hard and drank much before dying shortly after...
...He took photographs from early morning to late afternoon before boarding a train to leave Nagasaki...
...The older brother is now deceased...
...He arrived early in the morning on the following day, August 10...
...The mother is still alive...
...It seems that, because the photographs depict the suffering of civilians, they were not included in the Smithsonian exhibition...
...There is a railroad track on the right...
...Dead bodies can be seen...
...My father, Yosuke Yamahata, was a cameraman attached to the Western Army Corps in Fukuoka...
...The two brothers are searching for family members...
...He returned to Fukuoka where he developed the photographs...
...My father's photographs are an important document of that day in Nagasaki because they focus very much on the human suffering...
...According to a Japanese news program I saw here in Tokyo, both this photo and one of the older brother carrying his younger brother on his back were met with fierce objections and deleted...
...Shogo Yamahata lives in Tokyo...
Vol. 59 • August 1995 • No. 8
