Full DescriptionAnsel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar |
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| Title: | Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar |
| Alternate Title: | ListSets title: Records for "Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar |
| URL: |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/ 
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| 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. In "Suffering under a Great Injustice": Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar, the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress presents for the first time side-by-side digital scans of both Adams's 242 original negatives and his 209 photographic prints (with the print on the left and the negative on the right), 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. When he offered the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams wrote, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment...All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." |
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Asian Americans World War II Arts Social Studies World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar. Manzanar War Relocation Center--Facilities--1940-1950. Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. Adams, Ansel, 1902-, photographer. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | American Culture |
| Geographic Coverage: | North America (continent) |
| Time Period: |
Middle 20th Century (1934-1967) Modern (1701-present) |
| Objects Represented: | Photographs / slides / negatives |
| Format: |
image/jpeg image/tiff |
| Language: | eng |
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| accessRights: | There are no known restrictions on Ansel Adams's Manzanar photographs. Privacy and publicity rights may apply. |
| Copyright & IP rights: | Access is permitted; subject to Prints & Photographs Division policy on serving originals which requires service of surrogate prints and copy negatives in lieu of the originals. |
| Size: | 244 |
| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| Alternative Access: |
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=manz&metadataPrefix=oai_dc http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=manz&metadataPrefix=mods
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Dublin Core (simple or qualified) MARC MODS |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 4/23/2008 12:51:27 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Associated Collections | |
| There are no associated collections. | |
| Projects Associated with Digital Collection | |
| Title of Project: | Aquifer American Social History Online |
| Project URL: |
http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
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| Administrative Notes About this Collection in the Aquifer American Social History Online Project | |
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