AMC’s series about the Japanese American internment ends with a message about the importance of remembering the past. But it forgets the historical horror at the heart of the show.
All tagged World War II
Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.
Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
My mother's reaction to returning to a WWII U.S. government prison camp 70 years after her release.
Essay marking the 70th anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066.
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.