Shigeo Hayashi

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Shigeo Hayashi
Born	1918 (1918)
Died	2002 (aged 83–84)

The Genbaku Dome amidst the devastation in October 1945. Photograph by Shigeo Hayashi, one of two photographers attached to the academic survey teams.^[1]

Shigeo Hayashi (林重男, Hayashi Shigeo, 1918–2002) was a Japanese photographer.^[2] After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer. He died in 2002 at the age of 84.

References

↑ "Let's look at the Special Exhibit : Hiroshima on October 5, 1945". Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
↑ (Japanese) Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, editor. 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (『日本写真家事典』, Nihon shashinka jiten). Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ISBN 4-473-01750-8

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Name	Hayashi, Shigeo
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese photographer
Date of birth	1918
Place of birth
Date of death	2002
Place of death

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