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132: 202:. Miyatake initially took photos with an improvised camera fashioned from parts he smuggled into the camp. His activity was discovered after nine months, but Merritt supported the endeavor and allowed him to have his stored studio equipment shipped to the camp and continue the project (initially a camp guard had to release the shutter for him after Miyatake had positioned the camera). Miyatake and Adams met and befriended each other at the camp, while Lange's and Adams's visits did not overlap. 32: 210:
The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment…All in all, I think this
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Adams's goal in the project was twofold: to stress the good American citizenship of the internees, as conveyed in the subtitle of the book, "The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans"; and to show their ability to cope with the situation:
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In the summer of 1943, Adams was invited by his friend, newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt, to photograph life at the camp. The project and the accompanying book and exhibition at the
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Judith Fryer Davidov, "'The Color of My Skin, the Shape of My Eyes': Photographs of the Japanese-American Internment by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake",
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Adams donated his collection of Manzanar photos to the Library of Congress in 1965. In 2001, Spotted Dog Press published an updated version of
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with a foreword by Archie Miyatake, son of Manzanar photographer Toyo Miyatake. The new version of the book has on the front cover a photo of
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was still being fought and the animosity against Americans of Japanese descent was high, especially on the West Coast.
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Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use. (Ansel Adams, 1965.)
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Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar — About This Collection
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had visited all eleven Japanese-American internment camps while a staff photographer for the
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containing photographs from his 1943–1944 visit to the internment camp then named
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
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created a significant amount of controversy, partly owing to the subject matter.
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Adams was not the only photographer to take pictures in Manzanar. Before him,
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Ansel Adams
Manzanar War Relocation Center

Manzanar
calisthenics
Ansel Adams
Manzanar War Relocation Center
Owens Valley
Inyo County, California
New York
MoMA
World War II
Dorothea Lange
War Relocation Authority
Toyo Miyatake
Los Angeles
Joyce Okazaki (née Nakamura)


"Born Free and Equal — The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans"
Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar — About This Collection
"Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar"
Library of Congress
"Born Free and Equal"
the original
Born Free and Equal
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978-1477432945
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