ABSTRACT
A shadow is scorched on to a wall in Hiroshima.1 The blurred shape is the silhouette of a man who was perched on a ladder while painting a building, his arm outstretched. On August 6, 1945, as the atom was split, the flash produced temperatures estimated at around 300,000° C.2 The man, working close to the epicenter of the explosion, was incinerated and his outline blazed onto the wall, which inconceivably still stands. In the searing flash, he became a picture, an apocalyptic photograph.
