This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the
Japanese American incarceration captured by three
photographers-Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams-along
with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history. 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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