RIP Joe O'Donnell
A friend e-mailed me to inform that a great American photographer had died last week.
From Tennessean.com (11.08.2007) :
Mr. O'Donnell began his photographic career working for the U.S. Marine Corps. In September 1945, at the age of 23, he was sent to Japan to document the devastation after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was an experience that affected him deeply, friends said.
"When Joe joined the armed forces during World War II, he couldn't wait to go kill the Japanese, but they didn't give him a gun," recalled his friend Furman York.
"Instead, they sent him to photography school, and it transformed his life. I think being that close and personal with death and devastation changed him. A number of times, he was quoted as saying, 'Never again,' about the atomic bomb."
The NY Times (permalink) and The Japan Times followed up. And my old entry.
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