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"All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." - Ansel Adams
"Adams really believed in the integration of the human being and the landscape. So the images are really sort of embedded in the physical site of Manzanar with the Sierra Nevadas behind." - Jasmine Alinder (Personal Interview)
Adams, visiting the camp as a private citizen, photographed Manzanar throughout 1943. " Adams undertook this project of his own volition and at his own expense. Believing that in the dangerous struggle for race equality only an impartial and independent statement can be convincing, he has refused to be sponsored or affiliated with any governmental or political groups." (November 8, 1947, MOMA Press release) |
Exposing Manzanar |
Born Free and Equal |