Nagasaki Journey Archive
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Museum of Photographic Arts
2022
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Title: Nagasaki Journey Archive
Dates: 1993-1998
Collection Number: 2001.040
Creator/Collector:
Beaver, Chris
Extent: 11 boxes (3.5 linear feet)
Online items available
Repository:
Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, California 92101
Abstract: The collection consists of material relating to curation of the Nagasaki Journey exhibition, including printed material, press,
correspondence, contracts, audiovisual materials, slides, and photographs. The collection includes over 100 8x10 reference
prints of Yosuke Yamahata’s photographs, and negatives produced from the August 10, 1945 photographic expedition of Nagasaki.
Language of Material: English
Stored on-site at the Museum of Photographic Arts. Open for research by appointment only. Contact the Edmund and Nancy K.
Dubois Library for information.
Copyright © 2001. Museum of Photographic Arts. All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute the material
herein for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby
granted, provide that the copyright notice and this paragraph appear on all copy productions and distributions. A fee may
apply for commercial use, for more information; contact The Museum of Photographic Arts, 1649 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101.
tel: 619-238-7559, ext: 216. Some limitations apply. All 119 Yosuke Yamahata photographs remain copyrighted by Shogo Yamahata,
KM House 3E, 4.7.12 Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, tel/fax: 3-3447-1223, email: sy@syamahata.com.
[Identification of item]. Nagasaki Journey Archive. Collection Number: 2001.040. Museum of Photographic Arts
Gift, Christopher Beaver of IDG Films, 2001.
Biography/Administrative History
Christopher Beaver is an award-winning producer, director and writer of films dedicated to human rights, freedom of expression,
and the global environments. His films include the Emmy Award winning documentary Dark Circle; Between Dreams and History;
Secrets of the Bay; and Tales of the San Joaquin. Beaver, along with film director and writer Judy Irving, founded the Independent
Documentary Group (IDG), a nonprofit organization that produces a variety of films and media centered on human rights and
the environment. Beaver was the Exhibition Curator for Nagasaki Journey, and co-produced and directed the correlating exhibition
film.
Nagasaki Journey opened in three cities simultaneously in the summer of 1995 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the
bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It featured photographs by Yosuke Yamahata taken on August 10, 1945, which form a comprehensive
record of the effects of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of material relating to curation of the Nagasaki Journey exhibition, including printed material, press,
correspondence, contracts, audiovisual materials, slides, and photographs. The collection includes over 100 8x10 reference
prints of Yosuke Yamahata’s photographs, and negatives produced from the August 10, 1945 photographic expedition of Nagasaki.
The collection is arranged in seven series: Series I. Administrative. Series II. Organizational Binders. Series III. Organizational
Files. Series IV. Archival, Printed, and Reprinted Materials. Series V. Audiovisual Material. Series VI. Slides. Series VII.
Books.
War photography—Japan
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Exhibitions
Yamahata, Yōsuke, 1917-1966--Exhibitions
Beaver, Chris--Archives
Black-and-white slides
Photographic prints