Book Details

Title:

At Work in the Fields of the Bomb

Categories:

Graphic and Photographic Records

Languages:

English

Description:

This is a manifold pictorial work about the atomic bombs, which includes information about America's aging bomb factories, its atomic pioneers, its nuclear arsenals, the labor of Native Americans at uranium mines and A-bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The author includes interviews with the people in his pictures such as Yoshito Matsushige, a Hiroshima photographer, and Tsue Hayashi, the mother of a girl who died in the Nagasaki bombing. 水爆製造工場、広島・長崎被爆者、核廃棄物処理場、核被害者、核実験、佐々木禎子の父親、核開発者、ウラニウム採掘場の先住民など、原爆の実態を多面的にとらえている。広島のカメラマン松重美人、長崎で被爆死した林加代子 (山本典人 『かよこ桜』 新日本出版社 1981年のモデル) の母をはじめ、写真に登場する関係者とのインタビューも収録。