Shigeo Hayashi
Shigeo Hayashi was a Japanese photographer. After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Shigeo Hayashi
Shigeo Hayashi · 「反核・写真運動」監修『決定版 長崎原爆写真集』勉誠出版、 ISBN 978-4-585-27024-9 · Public domain
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- Shigeo Hayashi
- Died
- 2002
- Born
- 1918 · Kami-Ōsaki.
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- photographer
- Languages
- Japanese
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Shigeo Hayashi was a Japanese photographer. After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer. He died in 2002 at the age of 84.
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• Name — Shigeo Hayashi • Died — 2002 • Illustration — The Genbaku Dome amidst the devastation in October 1945. Photograph by Shigeo Hayashi, one of two photographers attached to the academic survey teams.
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1918
Shigeo Hayashi born at Kami-Ōsaki.
2002
Shigeo Hayashi died.
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- 1.Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Let's look at the Special Exhibit : Hiroshima on October 5, 1945.
- 2.in lang ja Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. nihongo 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers 『日本写真家事典』 Nihon shashinka jiten . Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8
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