Tsuchida, Hiromi
Japanese (1939-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Lunch box
SERIES TITLE: "Hiroshima"

1982
gelatin silver print
50.5 x 40.4 cm.
Gift of the photographer
GEH NEG: 45850
90:0700:0005

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Tsuchida, Hiromi. --Hiroshima.-- Tokyo: Kosei Publishing Company, 1985. p. 174.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 709.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Passport: International Photography from the Museum's Ford Motor Company", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, September 17, 1994 - February 12, 1995.//
"Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 22, 1996 -.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed) "Lunch box Reiko Watanabe (15 at the time) was doing fire prevention work under the Student Mobilization Order, at a place 500 meters from the hypocenter. Her lunch box was found by school authorities under a fallen mud wall. Its contents of boiled peas and rice, a rare feast at the time, were completely carbonized. Her body as not found." verso-(singed in pencil) "Hiromi Tsuchida"

copyright, Hiromi Tsuchida

NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, DZ.

SUBJECT: artifact, lunch box