About Shigeo Hayashi
Lived 1918 – 2002 (aged 83–84). Shigeo Hayashi was a Japanese photographer.
The Genbaku Dome amidst the devastation in October 1945. Photograph by Shigeo Hayashi, one of two photographers attached to the academic survey teams.
was a Japanese photographer. After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943. In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer. He died in 2002 at the age of 84.
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Who was Shigeo Hayashi?
Japanese photographer (1918–2002)
When was Shigeo Hayashi born?
Shigeo Hayashi was born in 1918 in Kami-Ōsaki.
When did Shigeo Hayashi die?
Shigeo Hayashi died on 1 September 2002.
What was Shigeo Hayashi's occupation?
Shigeo Hayashi was a photographer.
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Shigeo Hayashi was Japanese.
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