Born Free And Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans - Hardcover

Adams, Ansel; Benti, Wynne

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ISBN 10: 1893343057 ISBN 13: 9781893343054

Verlag: Spotted Dog Pr, 2002

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At the onset of World War II, Ansel Adams, who was living in Yosemite with his wife and children, sought out ways to help with the war effort. Too old to enlist, he volunteered for a number of assignments in which his photographic skills were put to the countryÕs use. He both escorted and photographed Army troops at Yosemite training for mountain warfare in Europe; he taught photography to the Signal Corps at Fort Ord, and traveled to the Presidio in San Francisco to print classified photographs of Japanese military installations on the Aleutian Islands. Despite his volunteer efforts, he was frustrated that he could not do more.That summer, friend Ralph Merritt asked Adams if he would be interested in photographing a little-known government facility in the Owens Valley, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. ÒI cannot pay you a cent,Ó Merritt told Adams, Òbut I can put you up and feed you.Ó Merritt was director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a collection of several hundred tar-papered barracks built atop a remote desert plain where more than 10,000 people were housed behind barbed wire and gun towers. All were of Japanese ancestry, but most were American citizens, forcibly removed from their homes by presidential order to ten relocation centers across the country. The resulting effort was the book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans published by U.S. Camera under the direction of the War Relocation Authority. While at Manzanar, Adams met Toyo Miyatake, official camp photographer, interned with his wife and children. Long before the war, Miyatake had studied with the great photographer, Edward Weston, and had established his own respected photography studio in downtown Los Angeles. In the introduction to this book, MiyatakeÕs son, Archie, who was then sixteen years old, recalls AdamsÕ visit.In 1965, Adams donated his Manzanar photographs to the Library of Congress. He wrote in a letter to Dr. Edgar Brietenbach: ÒÉI think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document and I trust it can be put to good useÉÓ With the goal of realizing that good use, Spotted Dog Press, Inc. presents Born Free and Equal to new generations of Americans who may come to a better understanding of an incident in our recent history that should never be forgotten.

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Ansel Adams, born in San Francisco, first studied photography with Bay Area photofinisher Frank Dittman in 1916. He married Virginia Best, daughter of the late painter, Harry Cassie Best, whose painting studio in Yosemite Valley later became their home and gallery. A photomuralist for the United States Department of the Interior in California in 1940, Adams also acted as photography consultant to the Office of War Information in Los Angeles.

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• Verlag: Spotted Dog Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1893343057
• ISBN 13: 9781893343054
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Herausgeber: Benti Wynne