Rupert Jenkins (ed.), Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata
San Francisco: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1995. Paperback, 128 pp. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs.
First edition first printing.
Text in English and Japanese.
On August 10, 1945, Yosuke Yamahata, a 28-year-old photographer for the Japanese News and Information Bureau, was given an assignment to document Nagasaki the day after the atomic bomb had been dropped. Accompanied by writer Jun Higashi and painter Eiji Yamadea, Yamahata began to photograph the dead and survivors. Taking hundreds of photographs within hours
In 1965 Yamahata was diagnosed with cancer, probably caused by the residual effects of radiation received in Nagasaki in 1945. He died the next year. His son had the negatives of these photographs restored in 1994. An exhibition of prints, Nagasaki Journey, traveled to San Francisco, New York, and Nagasaki in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the bombing.