Fishing Boats in Yokahama Harbor

Fishing Boats in Yokahama Harbor, a photo by Ohio University Libraries on Flickr.

Photographs by Cliff McCarthy.

Over 60 years have passed since these images were taken by Cliff McCarthy in and around Tokyo. At the time, McCarthy was an Air Force Sgt. As a way of passing time before his return to the United States, he borrowed a Speed Graphic camera from his 36th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron and explored his surroundings. In this collection you will find images of contrast and beauty within a society in transition.

“When you meet face-to-face, it’s an entirely different thing than the abstractness of war”, McCarthy said. “The humanity that we all possess emerges immediately. The act of photographing them was one of friendship.”

The photographs can be found as part of the permanent collection at Chubu University in Kasugai, Japan, Ohio University’s sister university.
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Fishing Boats In YOKOHAMA Harbor... is definitely one of the greatest photos of its kind that I have seen during my lifetime. It is a masterpiece, a photographic maritime original with no competition for a runner-up. Cliff McCarthy was one fabulous photographer as he shot these photos. RLH Editor