A Letter From Japan: The Photographs of John Swope

– A book by Carolyn Peter
– Co-published by UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Steidl
– Edited by Sherri Schottlaender
– Essays by John W. Dower & John Swope
– Designed by Lorraine Wild with Victoria Lam and Hilary Greenbaum

– Hardcover, 256 pages, 226×264 mm, 2016

"As one of the first American photographers to set foot on Japanese soil at the end of World War II, even before Japan had officially surrendered, John Swope experienced and recorded a critical, peculiar, and fragile moment in the history of Japan and a war-torn world."

More pictures here.