Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata August 10, 1945

Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata August 10, 1945 by Yamahata, Yosuke. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780876543603.

Only twenty-eight years old, Yosuke Yamahata was one of three men sent by the Japanese Army to document the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. Mr. Yamahata, along with his companions, a writer and a painter, arrived in Nagasaki before dawn on August 10. As the sun rose, he began to photograph. By nightfall he had completed the most extensive photographic record of the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombings of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, more than one hundred images taken in the course of a single day. NAGASAKI JOURNEY is an essential historic record of the nuclear age, made more compelling in light of contemporary nuclear proliferation and the potential for nuclear terrorism.