Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adamss Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration Tamaki Lauren

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers--Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams--along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history.Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Families, teachers, farm workers--all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, and everything they owned. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States.

Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced to live under hostile conditions in incarceration camps, their futures uncertain.Three photographers set out to document life at Manzanar, an incarceration camp in the California desert:Dorothea Lange was a photographer from San Francisco best known for her