A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope

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As one of the first American photographers to set foot on Japanese soil at the end of World War II—even before Japan had officially surrendered—John Swope experienced and recorded a critical, peculiar and fragile moment in the history of the East and of a war-torn world. His powerful photo essay is complemented here, as he had hoped it would be one day, by excerpts from the 144-page letter he wrote to his wife, the actress Dorothy McGuire, during the three weeks he spent traveling with an elite team of Edward Steichen Naval photographers tapped to document the release of Allied prisoners of war. Swope went far beyond his official duties to convey the impact of World War II on the local ...

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Itinerary and map of John Swope's 1945 trip to Japanp. 10A letter from Japan : the photographs of John Swopep. 13Picturing peace : John Swope's Japan, August/September 1945p. 39Platesp. 47John Swope's letter to Dorothy McGuire, August 30-September 20, 1945p. 212Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.