Displaced
Subtitle: Manzanar, 1942-1945, the Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Contributors: Matsumoto, Nancy, author; Lange, Dorothea, photographer; Miyatake, Toyo, photographer; Albers, Clem, photographer; Stewart, Francis, photographer; Adams, Ansel, photographer; Iwata, Jack, photographer; Lee, Russell, photographer
Publisher: T. Adler Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781942884293
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Pictorial works
Description: Collection of photographs taken at the Manzanar internment camp where Japanese Americans were imprisioned during World War II.  Dorothea Lange was hired by the WRA to photograph the mass evacuation; she worked into the first months of the internment until she was fired by WRA staff for her "sympathetic" approach. Many of her photographs were seized by the government and largely unseen by the public for a half century. More than a year later, Manzanar Project Director Ralph Merritt hired Ansel Adams to document life at the camp. Lange and Adams were also joined by WRA photographers Russell Lee, Clem Albers and Francis Stewart. Two Japanese internees, Toyo Miyatake and Jack Iwata, secretly photographed life within the camp with a smuggled camera.