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View Resource Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar

One might expect that the area around the Sierra Nevada Mountains might be an elegant and obvious choice for the noted photographer Ansel Adams to feature in his work, particularly given his fondness for documenting various aspects of the natural world. But, in the fall of 1943, Adams came to this area, not to document the surrounding landscape, but rather the lives of the Japanese-Americans who...

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/manz/