"American people generally, I think, are willing to concede we made a hell of a mistake. And I see it in print, over and over again, from unexpected sources. In the Congressional Record it comes up every once in a while, as an example of what happens to us if we lose our heads. It's that example they point to. I think it's rather encouraging, as a sign of our mental health, that we admit a mistake. What was, of course, horrifying, was to do this thing completely on the basis of what blood may be coursing through a person's veins, nothing else. Nothing to do with your affiliations or friendships or associations. Just blood." - Dorothea Lange, Oral History, 193
Ansel Adams was a friend of Lange's. Soon after her photographs were impounded she heard Adams had been recruited. She wrote him a letter explaining her photographs had been suppressed, advising him to photograph injustices done to internees as she had tried. |