"Imagery of extinction"

Hiroshima, photographer unknown, 1945, International Center of Photography
via Design Observer

The lack of visual evidence of the atom bomb’s effect has helped us to forget its devastating impact. To see is to remember. Up until now, there have been few publicly available images of what happened on the ground when the first atomic bomb exploded. As a result, Hiroshima has become, as the novelist Mary McCarthy wrote in 1946, “a kind of hole in human history.”

Forografias "novas" de Hiroshima, após a bomba - via Design Observer