Chizu (The Map)
In 1958, 13 years after the destruction of Hiroshima, the magazine Shincho Weekly sent Kikuji Kawada there on assignment. While exploring the ruins of the city’s Industrial Promotion Hall—already known as the “A-Bomb Dome”—Kawada discovered stains on its interior surfaces, perhaps all that remained of those who were inside at the time of the blast. Kawada returned on his own to photograph these stains close up, conveying feelings of grief, horror, and madness. These pictures, along with disparate images of defunct military strongholds, war artifacts, and fragmentary scenes from postwar life, were eventually published in Chizu, one of the greatest photobooks of the 20th century. A unique, two-volume maquette of this project is also held by the Library’s Spencer Collection.
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Spencer …
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Norman Lewis’s Street Music—Jenkins Band
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Kikuji Kawada’s Chizu
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Orchestration by Morris Blackburn
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“Primulas” from The Beauties of Flora
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New York and Environs
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Variation on the Qingming shanghe tu
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