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Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adam's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
Elizabeth Partridge
Illustrator: Lauren Tamaki
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-1-4521-6510-3
Keywords: WWII, racism, bigotry, forced removal, constitutional rights, hysteria, First Amendment, concentration camps
The divergent backgrounds and motivations of these photographers produced widely varied portraits of the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Vivid ink, pencil, and digital illustrations and archival photos. Discussion of historic and legal background. Biographies, footnotes.