Title from caption on object: “A Hiroshima Bombing Victim's Skin is Burned in the Pattern Corresponding to a Kimono...”

September 1945

Gonichi Kimura

Artist, Japanese, 1905 - 1973

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 26.6 × 23 cm (10 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.659

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

top left printed in image perpendicular: AP LEAFDESK; vertical along right edge printed in image: (KRT317-July 20 1995)HIROSHIMA, JPN--FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH UPCOMING STORIES NATIONAL ARCHIVE FILE / PHOTOGRAPHY VIA KRT (KRT317-July 26) A Hiroshima bombing victim’s skin is burned in the pattern corresponding to a / kimono worn at the time of the atomic bomb explosion on Aug. 6, 1945. (as55:22 PM) 1995 (B&W ONLY) (18 of 22 photos; / additional pictures in KRT/PressLink) CREDIT:KRT SLUG:ABOMB 18 HIROSHIMA (NOTE:ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE IN / KRT PRESSLINK)(SS/AS) / AP LEAFDEAK; on verso, upper left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: AUG 4 '95; by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular: WAR-HIROSHIMA [circled] 8/6/45; lower left printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: ADC-708-CT

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