Lot 777
Hoffman, Bernard. Acclaimed photo-journalist for LIFE Magazine. Limited Edition Photograph. Black and white, 11 x 14", featured as "Picture of the Week" on p. 37 of the October 15, 1945 issue of "LIFE". Caption in part: "After the atomic blast of Nagasaki, all that remained of the Urakami Roman Catholic Cathedral,… was a stone shell and a shattered stairway strewn with bits of sacred statuary. Amid the litter lay a sculptured head of Christ, like a stony symbol of the moral problem facing a people who profess to follow his teachings: whether even the urgencies of war should permit such violation of individual life as the atomic bomb had committed." . Fine.
Estimated Value $250 - 500.
From the estate of Bernard Hoffman.
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