Seen and unseen: what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration
(Book)
Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families, teachers, farm workers—all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, and everything they owned. Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced to live under hostile conditions in incarceration camps, their futures uncertain.
Three photographers set out to document life at Manzanar, an incarceration camp in the California desert:
Dorothea Lange was a photographer from San Francisco best known for her haunting Depression-era images. Dorothea was hired by the US government to record the conditions of the camps. Deeply critical of the policy, she wanted her photos to shed light on the harsh reality of incarceration.
Toyo Miyatake was a Japanese-born, Los Angeles–based photographer who lent his artistic eye to portraying dancers, athletes, and events in the Japanese community. Imprisoned at Manzanar, he devised a way to smuggle in photographic equipment, determined to show what was really going on inside the barbed-wire confines of the camp.
Ansel Adams was an acclaimed landscape photographer and environmentalist. Hired by the director of Manzanar, Ansel hoped his carefully curated pictures would demonstrate to the rest of the United States the resilience of those in the camps.
In Seen and Unseen, Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki weave together these photographers' images, firsthand accounts, and stunning original art to examine the history, heartbreak, and injustice of the Japanese American incarceration.
AWARENESS OF AMERICAN HISTORY: This impactful book engages with an underrepresented topic in American history, and highlights important and timely themes like primary sources, censorship, and visual literacy.
SUBSTANTIAL BACKMATTER: Featuring eighteen pages of backmatter, including an Author's and Illustrator's Note, footnotes, photo credits, biographies of each photographer, and more.
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Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Lange, Dorothea -- Juvenile literature.
Manzanar War Relocation Center -- Juvenile literature.
Miyatake, Tōyō -- Juvenile literature.
United States. -- War Relocation Authority. -- Photography Section -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- California -- Manzanar -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography -- Juvenile literature.
Notes
Partridge, E., & Tamaki, L. (2022). Seen and unseen: what Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's photographs reveal about the Japanese American incarceration. San Francisco, Chronicle Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Partridge, Elizabeth and Lauren, Tamaki. 2022. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration. San Francisco, Chronicle Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Partridge, Elizabeth and Lauren, Tamaki, Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Partridge, Elizabeth, and Lauren Tamaki. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2022.
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