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oapen-20.500.12657-630752024-03-28T08:18:51Z Irradiated Cities mariko, nagai photography;nuclear disasters;nuclear bomb;nuclear energy;Hiroshima;Fukushima;Nagasaki;Tokyo thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AJ Photography and photographs::AJC Photographs: collections::AJCD Individual photographers thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNQ Nuclear issues thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPJ Japan The before, the after, and the event that divides. In Irradiated Cities, Mariko Nagai seeks the dividing events of nuclear catastrophe in Japan, exploring the aftermath of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. Nagai’s lyric textual fragments and stark black and white photographs act as a guide through these spaces of loss, silence, echo, devastation, and memory. And haunting each shard and each page an enduring irradiation, the deadly residue of catastrophe that leaks into our DNA. Winner of the 2015 NOS Book Contest, as selected by guest judge lê thi diem thúy. 2023-05-23T15:04:05Z 2023-05-23T15:04:05Z 2023 book 9781685711504 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63075 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0502.1.00.pdf punctum books Les Figues 10.53288/0502.1.00 10.53288/0502.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781685711504 ScholarLed Les Figues 146 open access
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The before, the after, and the event that divides. In Irradiated Cities, Mariko Nagai seeks the dividing events of nuclear catastrophe in Japan, exploring the aftermath of the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima. Nagai’s lyric textual fragments and stark black and white photographs act as a guide through these spaces of loss, silence, echo, devastation, and memory. And haunting each shard and each page an enduring irradiation, the deadly residue of catastrophe that leaks into our DNA.
Winner of the 2015 NOS Book Contest, as selected by guest judge lê thi diem thúy.
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