How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment

Click Here to Read: How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment by Akiko Ichikawa on the Hyperallergic website on September 1, 2015.

Dorothea Lange, “Manzanar, California, Dust storm at this War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry are spending the duration” (July 3, 1942). The area was subject to extreme seasonal temperatures, with dust a constant presence due to the high winds. Incarcerees often awoke mornings covered in a layer of it. (photographed by Dorothea Lange for the WRA, courtesy the National Archives [Archives Identifier 539961])