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1961

Nagasaki

Shomei Tomatsu

Japanese, 1930 - 2012

In the 1960s, Shomei Tomatsu made haunting and politically charged photographs of the aftermath of atomic warfare, including this image of a scarred survivor of the American bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II.

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