Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- The A-Bomb Memorial Dome, Scribbles by Tourists, from the series The Map
- Artist name
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Kikuji Kawada
- Date created
- 1960-1965
- Classification
- photograph
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 7 1/4 × 9 3/8 in. (18.42 × 23.81 cm)
- Date acquired
- 2002
- Credit
- 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.
Other Works by Kikuji Kawada
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Kikuji KawadaFloating Fish and a Photographer, from the series Los Caprichos -
Kikuji KawadaSunspot and a Helicopter -
Kikuji Kawada90-Year-Old Japanese, A Memorial Decoration from the Showa Emperor, from the series The Map -
Kikuji KawadaThe Ruin of a Stronghold, from the series The Map
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