January 14, 2022 08:44 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/01/14/dorothea-langes-rarely-seen-photos-of-japanese-americans-in-u-s-concentration-camps.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=r
Dorothea Lange's rarely-seen photos of Japanese Americans in U.S. concentration camps
Over 120,000 Japanese Americans, many of them American citizens, were incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps during World War II. The government's War Relocation Authority hired photographers to document the process in a way that masked this massively cruel act
Among the photographers was Dorothea Lange, who famously photographed migrant agriculture workers for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression. — Read the rest
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/01/14/dorothea-langes-rarely-seen-photos-of-japanese-americans-in-u-s-concentration-camps.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=r
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article