Things Left Behind

Things Left Behind DVD VIDEO DOCUMENTARY atomic bomb aftermath! Linda Hoaglund Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: Things Left Behind Released: 2013 Media: DVD "Remembrance, empathy, beauty, and loss are all themes of Ishiuchi Miyako's photographs and of Linda Hoaglund's documentary — an especially rich inquiry into historical memory and responsibility." THINGS LEFT BEHIND explores the transformative power of the first major interna-tional art exhibit devoted to the atomic bomb. The exhibition, at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, featured color photographs of clothing once worn by those who perished, taken by renowned Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. She brought the garments—still colorful and fashionable nearly seven decades later—out of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial archive and photographed them in the light, to trace the spirits of those who once wore them. "What director Linda Hoaglund and her subject Ishiuchi Miyako have done is simply to take the weight of hist