Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams
On view through September 11, 2022
Museum of Sonoma County
Santa Rosa, California
www.museumsc.org
“Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams,” features over fifty little-known photographs by Ansel Adams (1902–1984) that depict how Japanese Americans bore their treatment at the Manzanar incarceration camp in central California. Taken during World War II, the black and white images were originally published in Adams’ book “Born Free and Equal” (1944) in which he protested what he called the “enforced exodus” of American citizens within their own country.
“Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams” is an important lesson about the past injustice done to a community because of their national origin and race, delivered 80 years after one of America’s most horrific decisions.
[Images: Pictured (left to right): Roy Takeno outside Free Press Office, 1943; Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Tsurutani and baby Bruce, 1943; Manzanar Street Scene, Spring, 1943]
