Title from caption on object: “Time Stopped by Atom Bomb”
August 21, 1945
Artist, Japanese, 1917 - 1980
Publisher

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 26.3 × 21.3 cm (10 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
sheet: 27.9 × 21.5 cm (11 × 8 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.391
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
crop marks top left and top right in blue crayon; across bottom printed in image: (NY19-Aug. 2)--TIME STOPPED BY ATOM BOMB- The Hiroshima explosion recorded at / 8:15 a.m., Aug. 6, 1945 on the remains of a wrist watch found in the ruins in / this 1945 United Nations photo. The shadow of the small hand on the 8 of the / watch was burned in from the blast, making it appear to be the big hand. (AP; on verso, upper right printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: ABV-445-CT; by unknown hand, center right in blue ink perpendicular: Hiroshima, Japan [circled] Atomic Bombing of; bottom right stamped in blue ink perpendicular: AUG 14 '85