"Photos of Hiroshima from the Robert L. Capp Collection"

[[R-MOD]Saobh]

Haven't seen much talk about this in any media, even tho it's historical importance.

The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the occupation forces. Unlike most photos of the Hiroshima bombing, these dramatically convey the human as well as material destruction unleashed by the atomic bomb. Mr. Capp donated them to the Hoover Archives in 1998 with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. Three of these photographs are reproduced in Atomic Tragedy with the permission of the Capp family. Now that the restriction is no longer in force, the entire set is available below. Please contact Sean L. Malloy (smalloy@ucmerced.edu) if you have any information that might help identify the original photographer.

NOTE: Anybody wishing additional information about these photographs should consult the taped oral history that Mr. Capp left along with the original photos in at Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. Any request for high-resolution, publication quality reproductions should be directed to the Hoover Archives.

I've posted only 1 of the 10 pictures. the less graphic one.

source:
Atomic Tragedy -- Photos
(warning the other pictures are graphic)

Ps: Please keep the "US are nuke nuts" or the "Japs deserved it" flaming out of this thread. As the body count as well as the geopolitical implications of this historical event could presumably gone both ways.


edit:Oh and on the same topic, this a preview of a short movie that won a prize at the Clermont-Ferrand short film festival this year:

YouTube Video

Nijuman no Borei (200.000 phantoms) (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
(original video is 10 minutes/ thousands of photos long showing the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition from 1914 to nowadays)

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

Interesting.
I have 5 Euros that say it won't two pages before the above listed behaviour starts.

[[R-DEV]OkitaMakoto]

Man, yeah. Always a touchy subject. Just take a look at any hiroshima/nagasaki related youtube vids comments...

Thats some moving stuff. Amazing what a little bomb ca do. Well, not little by bomb standards, I guess, but still... you know.

Found in a cave outside hiroshima? Interesting. I guess youd be surprised what you can find if you look.

Those bombs shaped Japanese culture about as much as anything else could have. That and the end of the war in general[Emperor claiming mortality, Article 9, Atomic bombings]. It'll be interesting to see how their role in world politics evolves. Even now there are those pressing for a military role, while many other want to remain in some peaceful anti-war state.

I guess one doesnt really know what else to say here :\ I did a small for fun report with some friend this past year on the differences in media between the US and Japan and it was crazy to see the amount of violent games we have [halo, gears of war, CoD, GTA, etc] whereas the top selling games in Japan are all cute and cuddly :P

Anyway, only have net for a few minutes, so Im sorry that this is a crappy post, heh. Hope this stays on topic and that I can check it out in a week without it being locked

[milobr]

If there's anything closer to Hell on Earth than that's it.

[NYgurkha]

Passed through Hiroshima once, its amazing how humans can recover. Strangely though its one of the few cities in Japan that i felt comfortable in.