Gregory's ServerAfter the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. War Relocation Authority made a decision it would soon regret.
It hired famed photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures as 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes on the West Coast and interned at remote military-style camps throughout the interior.
The agency had hoped Lange's photos would depict the process as orderly and humane.
But the hundreds of photos that Lange turned over did the opposite.
She considered internment a grave injustice, and her photos depict it that way.
She captured the confused and chaotic scenes of Japanese-Americans crowding onto buses and trains, the stressed and confused looks on their faces, their shuttered businesses, the threadbare barracks that would become their homes for months or years.
๐ฅInstead of allowing Lange to publish her photos, the government seized them.
Some of them were on display at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, in 2016.
They are part of an exhibit that tells the story of Japanese internment through the pictures of three photographers:
the equally renowned landscape photographer #AnselAdams, whose photos from California's Manzanar internment camp anchor the exhibit;
and #ToyoMiyatake, a Japanese-American photographer who was interned at Manzanar but smuggled in a camera
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment
@cdarwin
George Takei remembers that time in his life, and wants us to remember too.
https://www.npr.org/2019/07/17/742558996/george-takei-recalls-time-in-an-american-internment-camp-in-they-called-us-enemy