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Domon Ken in 1964, shooting the phoenix statues on the roof of the Phoenix Hall at Byōdōin in Uji, outside Kyoto. (Collection of the Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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The writer Kawabata Yasunari, photographed in 1951 by Domon. (Collection of the Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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“Kondō Isami and Kurama Tengu,” from Children of Kōtō, photographed in 1955, by Domon Ken. (Collection of Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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Complete Works of Domon Ken, Volume 10: Hiroshima (1985). Editor’s note: The cover shows a Waltham pocket watch that belonged to a unit chief of the Hiroshima Prefectural Police, with its hands blasted off at 8:15 in the morning, when the atomic bomb detonated over the city. (Collection of Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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A marriage between two atomic bomb survivors, 1957. Photograph by Domon Ken, from Hiroshima, 1958. (Collection of the Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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Complete Works of Domon Ken, Volume 11: Children of Chikuhō (1985). (Collection of the Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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A Selection of Photographs by Domon Ken, Chosen by the Artist (new edition, 2009). Editor’s note: The cover shows a closeup of the Standing Image of the Bodhisattva Kannon (Avalokitesvara) housed in the East Pagoda at Yakushiji, Nara. (Collection of Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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Domon Ken in around 1966, on location at Nara’s Murōji. (Collection of Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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Photos of the Shōwa Era: Complete Works, Series 5 (1982). Editor’s note: Toward the end of his life, Domon finally succeeded in shooting his beloved Murōji temple in the snow. Just visible at the top of the stone stairs is the roof of the Kondō Hall. (Collection of Domon Ken Museum of Photography)
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The Domon Ken Museum of Photography
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