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This book is a photo collection of "Hiroshima" published by the All Japan Student Photography Federation. It is a network organization comprised of volunteers belonging to university photography clubs across Japan who documented the realities of the student movements that were erupting throughout the country at the time, and who also traveled to various parts of the country to take photographs based on their own concerns, continuing to question the meaning of photography. Influenced by Shomei Tomatsu and Kikuji Kawada, and guided by leading photography critic Tatsuo Fukushima, this anonymous group was actively working behind the scenes of the turning point in postwar Japanese photography from the mid-1960s onward, a period represented by groups such as Provoke. Many of the works of "All Japan Student Photography Federation" were also introduced and re-evaluated at "Japanese Photography 1968," an exhibition held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, organized by photography historian Ryuichi Kaneko. The book depicts the dissatisfaction with the state through the contrast between the scorched earth of the atomic bomb, which was said to be "not a single blade of grass to grow for 70 years," and the wonderful reconstruction achieved through the efforts of the local people, as well as the still-unsustained wasteland. This collection of little-known photographs by anonymous photographers powerfully showcases the underlying strength of Japanese photography. (Includes a paper with a list of participants and featured photographers, as well as a summary of the shooting schedule and content.)