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Moving Images - Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (Hardcover)
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Moving Images - Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration (Hardcover)
Series: Asian American Experience
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When the American government began impounding Japanese American
citizens after Pearl Harbor, photography became a battleground. The
control of the means of representation affected nearly every aspect
of the incarceration, from the mug shots criminalizing Japanese
Americans to the prohibition of cameras in the hands of inmates.
The government hired photographers to make an extensive record of
the forced removal and incarceration but forbade Japanese Americans
from photographically documenting the conditions of the camps or
any aspect of their lives. In this insightful study, Jasmine
Alinder explores the photographic record of the imprisonment in war
relocation centers such as Manzanar, Tule Lake, Jerome, and others.
She investigates why photographs were made, how they were meant to
function, and how they have been reproduced and interpreted
subsequently by the popular press and museums in constructing
versions of public history. Considering such factors as artistic
intention, institutional deployment, critical interpretation, and
popular reception, Alinder provides calibrated readings of the
photographs from this period. She uncovers the tension between
Dorothea Lange's moving and critical images of the camps and the
War Relocation Authority's blindly positive captions. She also
analyzes Ansel Adams's attempt to combat negative war propaganda
through humanizing photographs of Japanese Americans and locates
the limits of such a counternarrative in the midst of a national
mobilization against Japan. Moving Images examines the work of
Japanese American photographers operating both during and after the
incarceration, including Manzanar inmate Toyo Miyatake, who
constructed his own camera to document the complicated realities of
camp life for his fellow inmates. More recently, contemporary
artists Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi have used photography
to reckon with the legacy of incarceration by journeying to the
camp sites and creating photographs that bridge the
intergenerational divides between their parents, themselves, and
their children. Illustrated with more than forty photographs,
Moving Images reveals the significance of the camera in the process
of incarceration as well as the construction of race, citizenship,
and patriotism in this complex historical moment.
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