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05/31/2025 - 08/17/2025
TOP Museum (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku
153-0062 Tokyo
topmuseum.jp/e/contents/exhibition/index-5176.html
This exhibition features around 160 photographs and two films of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing taken by citizens of Hiroshima, photojournalists, and professional photographers. This occasion marks the first time for the media organizations involved in the possession, preservation, and use of the materials to collaborate on organizing an exhibition of A-bombing photos and films.
The exhibition is largely composed of materials from the “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” (1,532 photos and two films), a joint application for which the Hiroshima City government and the media organizations submitted to the “Memory of the World” international register of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2023. The materials had been preserved by the photographers themselves amidst the chaos following Japan’s defeat in the war and in defiance of the restrictive media censorship in place during the occupation era.
TOP Museum (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku
153-0062 Tokyo
topmuseum.jp/e/contents/exhibition/index-5176.html
This exhibition features around 160 photographs and two films of Hiroshima’s atomic bombing taken by citizens of Hiroshima, photojournalists, and professional photographers. This occasion marks the first time for the media organizations involved in the possession, preservation, and use of the materials to collaborate on organizing an exhibition of A-bombing photos and films.
The exhibition is largely composed of materials from the “Visual archives of Hiroshima atomic bombing—Photographs and films in 1945” (1,532 photos and two films), a joint application for which the Hiroshima City government and the media organizations submitted to the “Memory of the World” international register of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2023. The materials had been preserved by the photographers themselves amidst the chaos following Japan’s defeat in the war and in defiance of the restrictive media censorship in place during the occupation era.