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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Ansel Adams at Japanese internment Camp

Tom Kobayashi, South Fields
Ansel Adams produced a series of photographs taken at the Manzanar Relocation Center in California in 1943.  The series contains portraits of Japanese Americans, portrayal  of daily life and some wonderful landscapes. 
In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Manzener now is a national historic site

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