Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
All tagged Manzanar
My look at the work of Japanese American artist Patrick Nagatani
Documenting Manzanar: Exploring the World War II prison camp through the images of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake
The first of an 18-part essay series on the images of three photographers who documented the World War II U.S. government prison camp Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake. Like Miyatake, my father and his entire family were imprisoned at Manzanar during the war.
This is a short post that grew out of my research into documentary photographs taken of the California prison camp Manzanar, where people of Japanese descent were placed during World War II.
I join the 40th annual Manzanar pilgrimage and visit the site of the World War II internment camp that once housed my father and his family.