“Hiroshima bombing”

"The Hiroshima bombings took place at the end of World War II which entirely destroyed the city leaving it inhabitable to any living thing and killing hundreds of thousands of people. Posters began being created showing images of the blast from afar and skeletons left behind which Kamekura disagreed with as they were unappealing and unwanted by the masses due to the gruesome and graphic nature. He wanted something that perfectly balanced beauty and awareness of the horrific events so that people would want to display it everywhere. He achieved this beautifully shocking image of colorful flaming butterflies dropping to the ground, communicating the fragility of life and that the suffering that came from the bomb reached every aspect of living nature. Kamekura was unsatisfied with his design until its third color print where he cropped the borders, taking away half of one of the butterflies, to create a more randomized effect to show the uncalculated damage the bomb caused."—https://medium.com/fgd1-the-archive/hiroshima-appeal-yusaku-kamekura-1983-320cb4181ec0