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Text translation of A View of Mountains:

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1, On August 9, 1945, The Day The Atomic Bomb Was Dropped On Nagasaki, Yosuke Yamaha Ta, aphotographer serving in the Japanese army, was dispatched to the destroyed city.?

on August 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. On the same day, the photographer Yosuke Yamamoto, who served in the Japanese army, was sent to this ruined city.

The hundred or so pictures he took the next day constitute the fullest photographic record of nuclear destruction inexistence. Hiroshima, Destroyed three days early, had largely escaped the camera's lens in the first day after the bombing.

The hundreds of photos he took the next day can be described as the most complete image record of nuclear destructive power. Hiroshima, which was also destroyed three days ago, was basically not photographed by the camera on the first day of bombing. It was therefore left to Yamahata to record, methodically －and, as ithappens, with a great and simple artistry – the effects on a human population of a nuclear weapon only hours after it had been used.

Some of Yamahata’s pictu res show corpses charred in the peculiar way in which a nuclear fireball chars its victims.?

Yamauchi happened to methodically record the impact on human beings just a few hours after the explosion of nuclear weapons with great and concise artistic techniques. Some photos at the end of the mountain show the bodies charred by the nuclear fireball in its unique way.

They have been burned by light – technicallyspeaking, by the “thermal pulse” －and their bodies are often branded with the patterns of theirclothes, whose colors absorb light in different degrees.?

They were burnt by light-in technical terms, they were burnt by "heat pulse"-and the bodies are usually branded with patterns of clothes, because different colors absorb different light.

One photograph shows a horse twisted under the cart it had been pulling. Another shows a heap of something that once had been a human being hanging over a ledge into a ditch.?

A photo shows a twisted horse curled up under the cart it pulled. The other shows a pile of things hanging from the protrusion and reaching into the ditch, which shows that this is also a human remains.

A third shows a girl who has somehow survived unwoundedstanding in the open mouth of a bomb shelter and smiling an unearthly smile, Shocking us with the sight of ordinal life, which other seems to have been left behind for good in the scenes we are witnessing.

In the third photo, there is a little girl standing at the entrance of the air-raid shelter. Somehow, although she experienced a disaster, she was unscathed. There was a strange smile on her face, which was shocking.

Stretching into the distance on all sides are fields of rubble dotted with fires, and, in the background, a view of mountains.?

if it weren't for this photo, in the scene we are witnessing now, the original daily life would have gone forever. The vast expanse of ruins and rubble has been stretched into the distance, and the residual fire is scattered in the meantime, and the background of this scene is the endless mountains.

We can see the mountains because the city is gone. That absence, even more than wreckage, Contains the heart of the matter. The true measure of the event lies not in what remains but in all that has disappeared.

We can see the distant mountains in the distance because the whole city has turned to scorched earth. The destruction of cities can better illustrate the core essence of the problem than broken walls. The real effect of this incident is not what is left in the city, but what has disappeared. ?

2、It took a few seconds for the United States to destroy Nagasaki with the wo rld’s second atomicbomb, but it took fifty years for Yamahata’s pictures of the event to make the journey back fromNagasaki to the United States.?

It took only a few seconds for the United States to use the world's second atomic bomb to raze Nagasaki. However, it took 5 years for Yamauchi to take photos of this incident from Nagasaki to the United States.

They were shown for the first time in this country in 1995, at theInternational Center for Photography in New York.?

The photos were first exhibited in the United States in 1995 at the new york International Photography Center.

Arriving a half-century late, they are still news.The photographs display the fate of a single city, but their meaning is universal, since, in our age of nuclear arms, what happened to Nagasaki can, in a flash, happen to any city in the world.?

half a century late, these photos still have news effect. These photos show the fate of a single city, but they have universal significance, because in our nuclear weapons era, the disaster that happened to Nagasaki may happen to any city in the world in a blink of an eye. Through these photos, Nagasaki cleared its name.

In thephotographs, Nagasaki comes into its own. Nagasaki has always been in the shadow of Hiroshima, as if the human imagination had stumbled to exhaustion in the wreckage of the first ruined city without reaching even the outskirts of the second.?

It has always existed in the shadow of Hiroshima, because it seems that human imagination has stopped and disappeared after reaching the ruins of Hiroshima, the first destroyed city, so that it can't even reach the edge of Nagasaki.

Yet the bombing of Nagasaki is in certain respects the fitter symbol of the nuclear danger that still hangs over us.? It is proof of that, having once used nuclear disasters, we can use them again.

However, the catastrophe of Nagasaki is a more powerful symbol of the nuclear threat cloud hanging over our heads in some ways. It proves that once human beings kill with nuclear weapons, they will repeat the same mistakes.

It introduces the idea of a series －the series that, with tens of thousands of nuclear weapons remaining in existence, continues to threaten everyone.?

it brings the concept of serial destruction, that is, there are thousands of nuclear weapons that continue to exist, and each of us may be threatened.

(The unpredictable, open-ended character of the series is suggested by the fact that the second bomb originally was to be dropped on the city of Kokura, which was spared Nagasak i’s fate only because bad weather protected it from view.)?

(The second atomic bomb was originally intended to be dropped on Kokura, but it was only because of the bad weather and poor aerial view that Kokura was saved from Nagasaki. This shows the unpredictable and unpredictable nature of the series threat of nuclear weapons. )

Each picture therefore seemed not so much an image of something that happened a half-century ago as a window cut into the wall of the photography center showing what soon could easily happen to New York.?

Therefore, rather than recording what happened half a century ago, each photo is a window embedded in the wall of the photography center, through which people can see what may happen easily in new york soon.

Wherever the exhibit might travel, moreover, the view of threatened future from these “windows” would be roughly accurate, since, Although every incident city is different from every other, all cities that summer nuclear destruction will look much the same.

Moreover, no matter where these exhibits arrive, These "windows" show the threatened future almost accurately, because although every intact city is very different from other cities, any city hit by nuclear destruction will look almost the same. ?

3、Yamahata’s pictures afford a glimpse of the end of the world.?

The photos at the end of the mountain give people a glimpse of the end of the world.

Yet in our day, when the challenge is not just to apprehend the nucl