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In <I>Nagasaki 11:02</I>, his best-known series, Tōmatsu documented the lives of those who survived the atomic blast of August 9, 1945. These haunting portraits remind us that a single act of destruction creates endless physical, and psychological, pain. Here, Tōmatsu confronts us with the scarred face of a survivor. With eyes averting the camera’s gaze, Senji Yamaguchi emerges from the shadows, allowing us to see the keloid scars—particular to the aftermath of a nuclear attack—that mar his upper body. Knots and skeins of pulled skin run up and down his neck and jawbone, their irregularities glistening in the bright light. Instead of hiding the trauma of Nagasaki in the annals of history, Tōmatsu reminds us that, in order to construct a nonviolent future, we must remember and face suffering.</P></SPAN>","remarks":"MM rotation Febraury 2016"}],"media":[{"id":83750,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV10454","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1988,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </EM>48, no. 1 (1989): p. 35-59.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1988,\" <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </EM>48, no. 1 (1989): p. 35-59., p. 52","date":1989,"id":3105,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774727"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place made: Asia, Japan, Nagasaki","code":"Place made","continent":"Asia","subcontinent":null,"country":"Japan","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Nagasaki","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/1856177/nagasaki.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2055723,"term":"portraits","aatid":300015637,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2158090,"term":"faces","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2050321,"term":"nuclear bombs","aatid":300204021,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2188467,"term":"Depicts","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2188467,"term":"Depicts","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053728,"term":"black-and-white photographs","aatid":300128347,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2033838,"term":"Japanese","aatid":300018519,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"}],"classifications":[{"id":2053728,"classification":"black-and-white photographs"},{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2033838,"culture":"Japanese"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199324,"term":"Art Since 1945","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"sheet","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"40.80"},{"element":"sheet","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"28.50"},{"element":"image","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"51.00"},{"element":"image","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"41.80"}],"packages":[{"packageid":183111,"name":"Photo_remainder"},{"packageid":184078,"name":"CRS_2020_ElenaFratto_Mellon"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV10454"],"displaymaker":"Shōmei Tomatsu 東松照明, 1930–2012, born Nagoya, Japan; died Naha, Japan; active Tokyo, Japan, and Nagasaki, Japan","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Shōmei Tomatsu 東松照明 (1930–2012, born Nagoya, Japan; died Naha, Japan; active Tokyo, Japan, and Nagasaki, Japan), Nagasaki, 1962, printed 1988. 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