Author: MORTAROTTI, Vittorio
Title: Vittorio Mortarotti - The First Day of Good Weather. - [New]
Description: Skinnerboox, 2015. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. [88] pp. Softcover. Illustrated in colour throughout. - Edition: 500 - When it came to deciding when and where the first atomic bomb would be dropped, President Truman's orders were to attack one of the four selected targets on the first day of good weather. On August 6, 1945, it was raining on three of the targets - but it was sunny in Hiroshima. One day, you wake up and you go to work or perhaps you're in love ... but the sun is out and, because of that, you die. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan was one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, its effects etched into the history of Japan and the world. In his book, The First Day of Good Weather, Italian photographer Vittorio Mortarotti muses on the irony of good weather bringing bad events by linking his own personal tragedy with Japan's collective trauma. [GUP'] - My brother died in a car accident in 1999. His last girlfriend, Kaori, was Japanese. She kept on writing and sending photos for months after the accident. The search for Kaori led me to Fukushima and the tsunami area, working as a pretext to look for stories of loss and reconstruction across Japan. - [Vittorio Mortarotti] - New copy

Keywords: 9788894134100


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