The author
Jonathan Schell
Basic information
born in 1943
A writer for the New York from 1967 to 1987
A columnist for Newsday from 1990 to1996
A visiting fellow teaches at Wesleyan(卫斯理) University and the New School
His works :
The Village of Ben Sue
The Fate of the Earth(地球的命运) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The Unconquerable World : Power , Nonviolence, and The Will of The People(不可征服的世界:力量,非暴力和人民意志)
The Gift of Time: The Cause of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons(时代礼物:废止核武器案例)
His work mainly on nuclear weapons, has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker.
The photographer
Yosuke Yamahata(山端庸介)
Born: on August 6,1917
A Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day it was bombing
Death: on April 18, 1966 died of cancer
Background
In 1945,he was a 28-year-old-photographer on assignment with the Western Army Corps near Nagasaki.
On August 9,three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, news of a second “New-Style Bombing” was received by the Corps and Yamahata was sent immediately to photograph its aftereffects.
He arrived before dawn on August 10,1945.
As the sun rose he began to photograph the city, in which nearly half the population had been killed or injured by the bomb.
By nightfall he pleted the most extensive photographic record of the immediate aftermath of the bombings of either Hiroshima or Nagasaki, taking approximately 119 images during that single day.
When he was to leave, those photos were retained by the Army.
After 8 years later, those photos were allowed to show. In late July, 1995, an exhibition was held as part of the world’s observance of the 50 anniversary of the bombing. It had an unprecedented, simultaneous three-city opening at the San Francisco, Nagasaki and New York.
Horse under the cart
Skeletons and charred bodies
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