Ansel Adams photographs of Manzanar War Relocation Center

Adams photographs of Manzanar War Relocation Center
Title: Adams photographs of Manzanar War Relocation Center
Other Title: Photographs of Manzanar War Relocation Center.
Manzanar Collection.
'Suffering Under a Great Injustice' Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar.
Creator(s): Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1943.
174 negatives : safety film ; 5 x 7 inches or smaller.
68 negatives : nitrate ; chiefly 4 x 5 inches.
Summary: Photographs document the lives of Japanese Americans interned during World War II at the Manzanar Relocation Center, in Inyo County, California. There are numerous close-up and occupational portraits of individuals, including Roy Takeno, editor of the Manzanar Free Press, and photographer Toyo Miyatake. Group portraits include families, women and children. Other photographs show people posed in their living quarters and engaged in indoor daily life such as shopping, religious services, health care, and education; more informal views portray outdoor agricultural scenes and sports and leisure activities. Landscape views feature the background mountains and desert as well as camp facilities and buildings.
Notes:
Arrangement: Prints are organized into eight subject subdivisions including portraits and activities. Negatives are organized in two filing series, LC-A35 for 4 x 5 inches, and LC-A351 for 5 x 7 inches.
Well-known fine art and landscape photographer, Ansel Adams, took on several war-related assignments. When offering the Manzanar photos to the Library in 1965, Adams wrote in an accompanying letter, 'The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice ... had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.'
Collection title devised by Library staff.
There are 244 distinct images. Most are represented by a pair of negatives and prints; 2 are represented only by prints; and 36 are represented only by negatives.
Surrogates in the form of copy photographic prints made by the Library of Congress for all 242 original negatives are available in LOT 10479 (F).
Original prints and negatives Digitized images display with their associated catalog records in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/manzquery.html
Digitized images are also available through the Library of Congress American Memory Web site published in 2002 and called: 'Suffering under a great injustice: Ansel Adams's photographs of Japanese-American internment at Manzanar.' http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/manzquery.html
Some photographs published in Born free and equal : photographs of the loyal Japanese-Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, Inyo County, California / by Ansel Adams. New York : U.S. Camera, 1944.
Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968.
A set of catalog records describing each item is available through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. See http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/lcoa1.about
Subjects:
Manzanar War Relocation Center--1940-1950.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar.
Japanese Americans--California--Manzanar--1940-1950.
Concentration camps--California--Manzanar--1940-1950
Gelatin silver prints--1940-1950.
Group portraits--1940-1950.
Nitrate negatives--1940-1950.
Portrait photographs--1940-1950.
Safety film negatives--1940-1950.
Bookmark /2001695654/
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