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Camp life at Manzanar: Female internees practicing calisthenics, 1943. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans is a book by Ansel Adams containing photographs from his 1943–1944 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center [1] in Owens Valley, Inyo County, California.
Adams was photographing the Manzanar relocation camp for Japanese Americans, in 1943 and 1944, when he took this photograph, which he considered one of his best. Adams drove for four days to Lone Pine, in the winter of 1944, very early in the morning, hoping to be able to capture a picturesque sunrise photograph of the local Sierra Nevada, but faced the heavily cloudy weather and was unable to ...
Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, California. In 1943, Ansel Adams followed an invitation by newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to photograph the everyday life of the Japanese American internees in the camp.
This work is from the Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
At Manzanar, Miyatake met and began a longtime collaboration with Ansel Adams, who visited and photographed the camp in 1943. After the war, they showed their photographs in a collaborative exhibit, [7] and published the book Two Views of Manzanar featuring both his and Adams' photos of the camp., [8] [2]
Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children. ("Mr. Matsumoto and group of children" by Ansel Adams, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppprs-00362)
Portrait of Tōyō Miyatake (1896–1979) by Ansel Adams, 1943. Miyatake was a Japanese American internee and camp photographer at Manzanar War Relocation Camp during World War II. A studio photographer prior to his internment, Miyatake started taking photos at Manzanar with an improvised camera fashioned from parts he smuggled into the camp.
Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, California. In 1943, photographer Ansel Adams followed an invitation by newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to photograph the everyday life of the Japanese American internees in the camp. Adams's intent was to "show how these people, suffering ...