Title from caption on object: “Time Stopped by Atom Bomb”, August 21, 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.391

Artists / Makers

Yuichiro Sasaki (artist) Japanese, 1917 - 1980

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary