Name that photograph(er) !!!
OK photography buffs, time to prove your metal.
I have this photo somewhere in my collection of books on the subject, but I can't remember either the name of the photographer or the picture in question, since there are some smart cookies on this board, I turning it over to you.
The picture is of a Japanese mother mother bathing her deformed adult child (Daughter I think) in a wooden basin. The child a victim of hiroshima, black and white, I think...
Lets put your heads together, mebbe I can't even remember it right, but photography fans might know?
I have this photo somewhere in my collection of books on the subject, but I can't remember either the name of the photographer or the picture in question, since there are some smart cookies on this board, I turning it over to you.
The picture is of a Japanese mother mother bathing her deformed adult child (Daughter I think) in a wooden basin. The child a victim of hiroshima, black and white, I think...
Lets put your heads together, mebbe I can't even remember it right, but photography fans might know?
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it actually was taken in 1971 by w. eugene smith, and she wasn't a hiroshima victim she was a mercury poisoning victim. the minute you described it i knew i had seen it in one of my books. (i collect photography books to make up for my inability to shoot them) the look of love on the mothers face is as wondrous as the photo is haunting.
smith (the photog) did a photographic expose that garnered him a beating by goons who worked for the polluters. the girl (tomoke uemura) died six years after the photo was taken.
it's in one of my favorite books, "eyewitness-150 years of photojournalism" published for TIME by oxmoor house in 1990.
give me minute and i'll scan it and post it.
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having viewed literally hundreds, maybe thousands, of photos of all manner of human suffering (it's what I study, and why I'm often in a very fowl mood) I confused it with some other pics from another event that has produced disturbing photojournalism.
bad memory.
mercury poisoning, lucky me to discover that copy-right shenanigans have recently erupted around this photo. FWIW, I think his wife did the right thing. It was her property, and the gesture was hers to make.
In any event, now I can't find which shoe-box/book/binder I had it "saved" in. If you could post a largish scan, I'd appreciate it, I have no scanner and won't be able to scan it untill I get to campus/work, mebbe monday.
thanks
sorry, i couldn't get it to upload to my .mac pages so this the best i can do it's larger than in my book.
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Its a great book, big and dark
[edit]oops, answered allready
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