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Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

In 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California and the Japanese-Americans interned there during World War II. Adams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style landscape photography. Although a majority of the more than 200 photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities...

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Ansel Adams, California, Japanese American Internment, World War II, Manzanar, photography
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Material Type:
Collection
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 23, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:
August 24, 2020
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Sue Patrick
Primary Audience:
Middle School, High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Website
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TIFF or JPEG
Language:
English
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No
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Unknown
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