Life In Manzanar Internment Camp
Ansel Adams is best known for his landscape photography, but during WWII he documented Japanese-Americans interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Adams wanted to show how “these people, suffering under a great injustice… had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.”
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Niloufar N. a year agoI’m hoping that the one person who thought this was a “fail” doesn’t understand the context of these pics…
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Baby Praying Mantis a year ago
@Trevor Cason in the FB comments — did you READ the description? No one is justifying internment. Adams simply wanted to praise the strength of these people. Despite the terrible injustice done to them, they sought autonomy. They continued to try and live their lives. In fact, the reason I chose the picture of deportation as the last image was to remind everyone that happy faces in photographs should not detract from the gravity of the situation.
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The Angry Luddite a year agoThis is really something. I didn’t know about this set from Adams. Your posts have been missed, Mantis.
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