Shigeo Hayashi

Shigeo Hayashi (林 重男, Hayashi Shigeo, 1918–2002) was a Japanese photographer.

[2] After three years of Army service he began his career as a photographer with the Japanese propaganda magazine FRONT, in 1943.

In September 1945 he was one of two photographers assigned by the Special Committee for the Investigation of A-bomb Damage to document the aftermath of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In subsequent decades he worked as a commercial photographer.

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The Genbaku Dome amidst the devastation in October 1945. Photograph by Shigeo Hayashi, one of two photographers attached to the academic survey teams. [ 1 ]