Artist Visualizes Hiroshima 68 Years Later
North Carolina Public Radio | By Alex Granados,
Frank Stasio
Published July 9, 2013 at 10:36 AM EDT
Elin O'Hara Slavick
In a little less than a month, Hiroshima, Japan will reach a sad milestone. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped one of only two atomic bombs ever used in an act of aggression. It leveled the city, killing an estimated 80,000 people outright. When artist Elin O’Hara Slavick decided to go to Hiroshima in 2008, she knew she wanted to do a project capturing the city and how it’s been affected by the bombing that took place almost 68 years ago. The result is her new book: “After Hiroshima,” (Daylight Books/2013). Today on The State of Things, host Frank Stasio talks withElin O’Hara Slavick, a Professor of Visual Art, Theory and Practice at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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