Various photographers including Hikaru Iwasaki
Suite of press photos related to Japanese Internment, 1941-45
Silver prints (6)
7 x 9 to 8 x 10 inches
Each with various press notations and caption information verso.
Each with various press notations and caption information verso.
Further images
A varied and compelling group of photographs documenting Japanese-American citizens whose lives were irrevocably uprooted by Executive Order 9066. Two photographs show intrusive raids on ordinary citizens, both of whom...
A varied and compelling group of photographs documenting Japanese-American citizens whose lives were irrevocably uprooted by Executive Order 9066.
Two photographs show intrusive raids on ordinary citizens, both of whom are elderly men. One image shows Long Beach police officers questioning an unidentified subject about his many model planes (seen in the image). The other shows a portrait of a Santa Cruz, CA, man whose home was raided by the FBI. There is also a photograph shot in New York of Japanese-American citizens who were arrested while in Europe.
The other three photographs pertain to life in the concentration camps. There is a photograph of Hiroshi Neeno, mail co-ordinator at the “Owens Valley Alien Reception Center” in Manzanar, delivering mail to Fusako Mizatuni and a general overview of the northwest section of camp No. 2 of the Gila River center.
Lastly, there is a photograph by the important photographer Hikaru Iwaski. Sent to Heart Mountain as a teenager, Iwasaki was a photographer and the only Japanese-American member of the War Relocation Authority's Photographic Section (WRAPS). Included in the group is a poignant image of a young child who was born inside the Poston Concentration Camp. The photograph shows him with his head outside of a train car, on his way to see the rest of the world for the first time.
Two photographs show intrusive raids on ordinary citizens, both of whom are elderly men. One image shows Long Beach police officers questioning an unidentified subject about his many model planes (seen in the image). The other shows a portrait of a Santa Cruz, CA, man whose home was raided by the FBI. There is also a photograph shot in New York of Japanese-American citizens who were arrested while in Europe.
The other three photographs pertain to life in the concentration camps. There is a photograph of Hiroshi Neeno, mail co-ordinator at the “Owens Valley Alien Reception Center” in Manzanar, delivering mail to Fusako Mizatuni and a general overview of the northwest section of camp No. 2 of the Gila River center.
Lastly, there is a photograph by the important photographer Hikaru Iwaski. Sent to Heart Mountain as a teenager, Iwasaki was a photographer and the only Japanese-American member of the War Relocation Authority's Photographic Section (WRAPS). Included in the group is a poignant image of a young child who was born inside the Poston Concentration Camp. The photograph shows him with his head outside of a train car, on his way to see the rest of the world for the first time.