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Book SynopsisIn After Hiroshima, American artist elin o’Hara slavick attempts to address the aftermath of the 1945 bombing--historically, poetically and visually. This act of ethical seeing brings to us with harrowing clarity
what may lie ahead if we cannot cure ourselves of the pathology that has brought us this far. --Noam Chomsky
elin o’Hara slavick is a Professor of Visual Art, Theory and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Slavick has exhibited her work internationally [and is the author of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, with a foreword by Howard Zinn and essay by Carol Mayor in addition to After Hiroshima]. She is also a curator, critic and activist.
James Elkins grew up in Ithaca, New York, separated from Cornell University by a quarter-mile of woods once owned
Trade Review
“What Slavick produces are ghosts, haunting images from a past that, to paraphrase Faulkner, is neither dead nor past.”,
- Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2013
“...forms one of the most modest, least sensational of commemorations.”,
- San Francisco Chronicle, August 2, 2013
"...artist elin o’Hara slavick faces a void of annihilation that transcends expression, and yet, with meticulous care and consciousness, she produces photographic exposures that illuminate the unspeakable.”,
- The Asia-Pacific Journal, May 12, 2013
