Writes Chris Dumm: When I was in college, I was  introduced to the work of Richard Avedon, an artist and portrait photographer for Vanity Fair. Avedon had an undeniable gift for capturing exactly what he wanted from the people he photographed, using nothing more than a neutral backdrop and black and white film. At a gallery exhibition of his in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I happened across the following  photograph of Major Claude Eatherly. Mistakenly identified as one of the pilots of the Enola Gay, Eatherly was nonetheless involved in the Hiroshima mission, conducting weather surveillance in the Straight … Continue reading A Face of Hiroshima