The next day after the tragedy.
These photos were taken the next day after the Japanese city of Nagasaki was destroyed by the atomic bomb. Photos were confiscated and now was first published.
A collection of spooky pictures taken by Japanese military photographer of the Eske Yamahata demonstrate the horror and the desperate situation in which there were survivors after the bombing.
Then the photographer was tasked to document the consequences of a nuclear bomb.
A collection of spooky pictures taken by Japanese military photographer of the Eske Yamahata demonstrate the horror and the desperate situation in which there were survivors after the bombing.
These photos were taken the day after the bombing of Nagasaki.
Photographer Jeske Of Yamagata.
Before Yamagata was tasked to document the destruction done by the atomic bomb.
The photographer showed captured the devastating impact of the explosion.
However, all photos were requisitioned by order of General Douglas MacArthur with the purpose of concealing the real picture of destruction.
The full album contains 24 pictures.
The same military seized photos.
Survivors in Nagasaki.
“I climbed up the small hill to look over the city view. It was burned down. Everything was in small fires”, says the photographer in an interview in 1962.
“The scene was at once terrible and fascinating”.
Eske of Yamahata died at the age of 48 in 1966 from cancer, which is thought to have been caused by extensive exposure to radiation.
Many of the photographs of Yamahata was used in the Japanese edition just a few weeks after the explosion.
