Title from caption on object: “Time Stopped by Atom Bomb”

August 21, 1945, printed 1985

Yuichiro Sasaki

Associated Names
Yuichiro Sasaki

Artist, Japanese, 1917 - 1980

Associated Press

Publisher

The image shows a corroded and damaged wristwatch with a partially legible watch face displaying numbers and two hands stopped at a specific time. The color palette consists of shades of gray, black, and off-white. The watch is positioned in the center of the image with a shadow below it, resting on a neutral textured background. Text about the object is visible in the lower portion of the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    thermally-developed silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • 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 Number

    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

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