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Matsushige was at home 2.7 km south of the hypocentre at the time of the explosion. He was not seriously injured, and determined to go to the city centre. A fire forced him back to Miyuki bridge, where the scene of desperate and dying people prevented him from using his camera for twenty minutes, when he took two frames at about 11:00. He tried again later that day but was too nauseated to take more than three more frames. The first two frames are of people who escaped serious injury next to Miyuki bridge; the second of these is taken closer up and shows them having cooking oil applied to their burns. A third shows a policeman, his head bandaged, issuing certificates to civilians. The last pair are taken close to home: one of the damage to his family's barbershop, and another out of his window.
Matsushige was unable to develop the film for twenty days, and even then had to do so at night and in the open, rinsing it in a stream. The negatives had severely deteriorated by the 1970s, requiring intensive restoration work.Iwakura.
File:Miyuki-bashi Nishi-zume, Senda-machi San-chohme, Hiroshima City - around 1100 on 6 August 1945 - Matsushige Yoshito.png, A scene in Hiroshima around 11:00 on 6 August 1945
File:Miyuki-bashi Nishi-zume, Senda-machi San-choume, Hiroshima - after 1100 on 6 August 1945.png, A scene in Hiroshima after 11:00 on 6 August 1945
File:Matsushige's house - Midori-machi Hiroshima - around 1400, 6 August 1945.png, Matsushige's house after atomic bombing (around 14:00 on 6 August 1945)
File:View of Midori-machi Hiroshima seen from Matsushige's house - around 1400, 6 August 1945.png, View seen from Matsushige's house (around 14:00 on 6 August 1945)
File:Near Ujina-sen Densha Magari-kado, Hiroshima - around 1700 on 6 August 1945.png, A scene in Hiroshima around 17:00 on 6 August 1945
File:A camphor tree fallen by atomic bomb's blast - around in October 1945.png, A camphor tree fallen by atomic bomb's blast
File:View of Hiroshima in October 1945.png, View of Hiroshima in October 1945
Testimony of Yoshito Matsushige
Yoshito Matsushige obituary (Japan Times, 18 Jan2005)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Matsushige, Yoshito Japanese photojournalists 1913 births 2005 deaths Hibakusha People from Kure, Hiroshima 20th-century photographers 20th-century Japanese artists
Japanese
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photojournalist
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who survived the dropping of the atomic bomb
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on the city of Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...
on 6 August 1945 and took five photographs
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on the day of the bombing in Hiroshima, the only photographs taken that day within Hiroshima that are known.
Matsushige was born in Kure
is a port and major shipbuilding city situated on the Seto Inland Sea in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. With a strong industrial and naval heritage, Kure hosts the second-oldest naval dockyard in Japan and remains an important base for the Japan ...
, Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui ...
in 1913. He took a job at a newspaper after finishing school and in 1943 entered the photography section of the newspaper ''Chugoku Shimbun
The is a Japanese local daily newspaper based in Hiroshima. It serves the Chūgoku region of Japan with a market share in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Okayama and Tottori Prefectures. The newspaper publishes morning and evening editions. The ...
''.
Matsushige was at home 2.7 km south of the hypocentre at the time of the explosion. He was not seriously injured, and determined to go to the city centre. A fire forced him back to Miyuki bridge, where the scene of desperate and dying people prevented him from using his camera for twenty minutes, when he took two frames at about 11:00. He tried again later that day but was too nauseated to take more than three more frames. The first two frames are of people who escaped serious injury next to Miyuki bridge; the second of these is taken closer up and shows them having cooking oil applied to their burns. A third shows a policeman, his head bandaged, issuing certificates to civilians. The last pair are taken close to home: one of the damage to his family's barbershop, and another out of his window.
Matsushige was unable to develop the film for twenty days, and even then had to do so at night and in the open, rinsing it in a stream. The negatives had severely deteriorated by the 1970s, requiring intensive restoration work.Iwakura.
Selected photos
References
Further reading
*Iwakura Tsutomu. "The Need for a Photographic and Motion Picture Museum for Peace". ''Kaku: Hangenki'', pp. 12–14. *''Kaku: Hangenki'' (核：半減期) / ''The Half Life of Awareness: Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Exhibition catalogue; captions and text in both Japanese and English. Three photographs by Matsushige are reproduced (other works are byKen Domon
is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers of the 20th century. He is most celebrated as a photojournalist, though he may have been most prolific as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary.
Biography
Domon was born in Sakata, Ya ...
, Toshio Fukada
was a Japanese photographer. Fukada died in 2009.
References
Further reading
*''Kaku: Hangenki'' (核：半減期) ''The Half Life of Awareness: Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.'' Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1995. Ex ...
, Kikujirō Fukushima
was a Japanese photographer and journalist, author of the book ''Postwar Japan that was not photographed: From Hiroshima to Fukushima''.
Early life and military service
Born in Kudamatsu-shi Yamaguchi Prefecture as the youngest of four brothers ...
, Shigeo Hayashi, Kenji Ishiguro
is a Japanese
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, Shunkichi Kikuchi
was a Japanese photographer best known for his documentation of Hiroshima and Tokyo immediately after the war.
Kikuchi was born in Hanamaki, Iwate on 1 May 1916. After graduating from the Oriental School of Photography, Kikuchi was employed ...
, Mitsugi Kishida
was a Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.
Selected photos
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, Eiichi Matsumoto
was a Japanese photographer. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.
During World War II he worked as a photojournalist for the Asahi Shimbun
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, Shōmei Tōmatsu
was a Japanese photographer. He is known primarily for his images that depict the impact of World War II on Japan and the subsequent occupation of U.S. forces. As one of the leading postwar photographers, Tōmatsu is attributed with influencing th ...
, Hiromi Tsuchida
is a Japanese photographer. His creative photo career is over 40 years long. Tsuchida has produced several collections of photographs of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He has produced many photo books such as ''Zokushin'', ''C ...
and Yōsuke Yamahata
was a Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed.
Biography
Yamahata was born in Singapore; his father, Shōgyoku Yamahata (, later to become known as a photographer) had a job there re ...
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* Kaneko Ryuichi. "The Half-Life of Awareness: Photographs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki". ''Kaku: Hangenki'', pp. 21–24.
External links
Testimony of Yoshito Matsushige
Yoshito Matsushige obituary (Japan Times, 18 Jan2005)
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