Hiroshima, 40 years

Place Asia: Japan, Hiroshima, Hiroshima
Accession Number ARTV09068
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 50.8 x 76 cm
Object type Poster
Physical description colour screenprint on paper
Maker Debenham, Pam
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1985
Conflict Period 1980-1989
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

A poster produced for the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The poster depicts the Peace Memorial and two Japanese men in the foreground. In the background an aerial view of the city of Hiroshima. Cast over the city is the shadow of the B-52 bomber that dropped the bomb which devastated Hiroshima.