A Maquette for a Multiple Monument for the Wristwatch Dug Up from Ueno-machi, Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, 2014, from the series Exposed in a Hundred Suns. Takashi Arai. Daguerreotype, 50 x 50 cm. Private collection
In the Shades on Mirrors: Daguerreotypes as Micro-Monuments for the Atomic Age
GETTY CENTER
Museum Lecture Hall
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Since 2010, photographer Takashi Arai has used the daguerreotype technique to create individual records, or "micro-monuments," of his encounters with nuclear sites in Japan—from Hiroshima to Fukushima. In this talk, he discusses his work and his belief that daguerreotypes are both a reliable device for storing memory and a superior medium for recording and transmitting interactions with his subjects than modern photography.