Suffering Under a Great Injustice

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Title:

Suffering Under a Great Injustice

Link:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/

Category:

Main > Photographic Works > Masters > Adams Ansel

Summary:
The Library of Congress presents Ansel Adams's photographs of Japanese American internment at Manzanar.

Description:
In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's best-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. The collection presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints, allowing viewers to see his darkroom technique and in particular how he cropped his prints. Adams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style of landscape photography. Although a majority of the photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities.

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