MORIOKA -- An exhibition featuring pictures taken by U.S. military photographer Joe O'Donnell -- known for his historic depiction of a Japanese boy carrying a dead baby on his back in Nagasaki in 1945 -- opened in Shiwa, Iwate Prefecture, on Friday.
The exhibition at Shiwa Studio in the town features about 40 photos taken by O'Donnell, who died in 2007 at the age of 85. The photos have been kept by Makoto Yamazaki, 85, who had close ties with the photographer. Yamazaki plans to talk about O'Donnell during an exhibition side-event on Sunday.
O'Donnell arrived in Japan as a photographer in September 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. During his seven-month stay, he visited Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the aftermath of the atomic bombings, taking about 300 photos with his personal camera.
