“Of the absolute catastrophe of Hiroshima, only the Peace Museum keeps the residual traces of 6 August 1945, preserves and maintains them, without claiming to restore or reconstitute what was of the order of the unthinkable, and whose tangible memories are so quickly erased. How can a catastrophe be safeguarded, so that its testamentary value remains legible?

Days, months and seasons, decades have reshaped the city, straightened its streets and houses, its parks and its bridges, and people live there. What is new in Hiroshima? These pictures overturn our expectation of proof by the image: they are views taken by a passer-by strolling along a garden, a seaside, a street, and catching things as if from the corner of the eye, according to a dreamy aesthetic of prosaic experience in which nothing constitutes a spectacle or an event — on the contrary.” — Anne-Marie Garat