Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory
The media scale of catastrophe
Disaster as spectacle
The sublime nature of ruins
Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion
Reconstruction's visual rhetoric
Remembrance
Epilogue: afterlives.
Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld. ISBN 9780520271951. Published by University of California Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.