Things Left Behind explores the transformative power of 'Hiroshima,' the first major international art exhibit devoted to the atomic bomb. The exhibition, at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, Canada, featured 48 large-format color photographic prints of clothing once worn by those who perished in the atomic bomb, taken by renowned Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. Ishiuchi brought the garments--still colorful and fashionable nearly seven decades later--out of permanent storage at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial archive and photographed them in the light, to trace the spirits of those who once wore them. The photographs, exhibited without any identifying caption, mutely solicited viewers to imagine or divulge a narrative, and unlocked a wealth of secrets and memories from those who encountered them.
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Linda Hoaglund Director · Yutaka Yamazaki Cinematographer William Lehman Editor
First release September 28, 2012 · Produced in Japan, United States · Languages English, Japanese
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NHK
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Japan · United States
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Original title
ひろしま - 石内都・遺されたものたち
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Japanese
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English · Japanese
Release dates
Canada · September 28, 2012
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Japan
July 20, 2013
Philippines
July 8, 2014 · Eiga Sai
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