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Jacket of a Junior High School Student-- Death in the Atomic Bomb Explosion

Jacket of a Junior High School Student-- Death in the Atomic Bomb Explosion

Kikuji Kawada (川田 喜久治)
Japanese, born 1933
1960-65
A gelatin silver print showing the burned school jacket of a junior-high student killed in the atomic bombing, with Kawada treating the discarded garment as a mute, documentary witness to sudden violence and loss.
You’re seized by a stark diagonal of white scorch and light that cleaves the dark cloth, reducing buttons and a pocket to fragile relics and suggesting the ghostly absence of a body that once occupied the jacket.
This image helped shape postwar Japanese photography’s use of everyday objects as forensic and poetic evidence, creating a visual language for remembering and confronting the intimate aftermath of atomic destruction.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
20 1/8 × 8 1/8" (51.2 × 20.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Celeste Bartos
Accession
355.1974
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