dinsdag, januari 18, 2005
Yoshito Matsushige overleden
Yoshito Matsushige, photojournalist and peace activist, famous for his photos of Hiroshima taken shortly after the U.S. atomic bombing at the end of World War II, died of acute kidney failure at a hospital in the city Sunday, his family said Monday. He was 92.
A Hiroshima native, Matsushige took photographs of the devastated city on Aug. 6, 1945, the day of the bombing, while he was working as a photographer for the Japanese daily Chugoku Shimbun.
One of his photographs, taken three hours after the bombing, depicted shellshocked residents at a location 2.3 kilometers from the epicenter of the atomic-bomb blast and was published in Life magazine and currently kept at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
After retiring from the Japanese daily, Matsushige became a peace activist and conveyed his experience of witnessing the horror of the bombing and gave speeches at home and abroad, including at the U.N. General Assembly.
He committed himself to photographing buildings destroyed by the blast and subsequent urban development after the war and the preservation of such photographs. He has also published books and photo essays on the bombing.
Bron:Kyodo.
foto Yoshito Matsushige
A Hiroshima native, Matsushige took photographs of the devastated city on Aug. 6, 1945, the day of the bombing, while he was working as a photographer for the Japanese daily Chugoku Shimbun.
One of his photographs, taken three hours after the bombing, depicted shellshocked residents at a location 2.3 kilometers from the epicenter of the atomic-bomb blast and was published in Life magazine and currently kept at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
After retiring from the Japanese daily, Matsushige became a peace activist and conveyed his experience of witnessing the horror of the bombing and gave speeches at home and abroad, including at the U.N. General Assembly.
He committed himself to photographing buildings destroyed by the blast and subsequent urban development after the war and the preservation of such photographs. He has also published books and photo essays on the bombing.
Bron:Kyodo.
foto Yoshito Matsushige
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