Kikuji Kawada
The A-Bomb Memorial Dome, Scribbles by Tourists, from the series The Map, 1960-1965

Artwork Info

Artwork title: The A-Bomb Memorial Dome, Scribbles by Tourists, from the series The Map
Artist name: Kikuji Kawada
Date created: 1960-1965
Classification: photograph
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 7 1/4 x 9 3/8 in. (18.42 x 23.81 cm)

Date Acquired: 2002
Credit: Collection SFMOMA
Collection of the Sack Photographic Trust and collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Accessions Committee Fund purchase)
Copyright: © Kikuji Kawada
Permanent URL: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2002.65.5
Artwork Status: Not on view at this time.

Photographer Kikuji Kawada discusses Chizu (The Map) (1960–65), his series on the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, the Japanese military, and the post–World War II economic boom in Japan. He describes how he was able to capture sublime and sometimes terrifying aspects of these subjects through abstracted detail.

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