Things Left Behind

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 largeformat 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 garmentsstill colorful and fashionable nearly seven decades laterout 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