The Scene at Miyuki Bridge I returned to Miyuki Bridge but could not snap the shutter of my camera. Faint cries pleaded for help and water. An infant clung to the breast of his mother who was too weak to move. A mother held her baby in her arms, crying madly, “Open your eyes! Open your eyes!” It was nothing but hell. The scene I saw through the viewfinder blurred as the tears streamed down my face. —Yoshito Matsushige Quoted from a photograph collection The Viewfinder Clouded with Tears (Gyosei Corporation, 2003). West end of Miyuki Bridge, Hiroshima. 2.2 kilometers (1.4 miles) from Ground Zero, August 6, 1945. Photograph by Yoshito Matsushige, Collection of the Chugoku Shimbun.
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