Ansel Adams wrote this courageous story about 120,000 interned Japanese Americans in Manzanar during WWII. This documentary work would make them visible and the story of their injustice known. In 1944, this book made the NY Times Book List. Then, it was burned in San Francisco. It disappeared before WWII ended. Today, Adams appeal for justice remains a story to be told again and again. This limited edition of 3,000 copies contains Adams' original story illustrated with 19 small duotone documentary photographs, a note on the photography and an index of the 1984 Born Free and Equal Exhibition photographs.
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"The fatal phase, a Jap's a Jap,might well have poisoned the course of racial tolerance for years to come." Ansel Adams, 1944"It is one of the publications designed to temper one of our prejudices, and I think it does it successfully." Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, 1945."Politics suppressed the exhibit of Adams' Manzanar photos twice, in its inaugural showing at the Museum of Modern Art in November, 1944,and now the Library of Congress has ordered the photographs back to Washington." Los Angeles Times, 1985."The politically engaged character of this project may surprise admirers of Ansel Adams. Adams always implied a judgement, a comparison of nature to the meanness of man."Dan Hoffman, Kansas City Star, 1987 -- Book Description
Ansel Adams did more than the right thing in 1944 when he wrote an appeal for justice. His book made the New York Times Book List at the same time it burned in San Francisco. Within months, his courageous book would disappear from the American landscape like the 120,000 interned Japanese Americans he wanted to make visible. Today his bold, conscience-driven story about the worst civil rights violation in American history deserves to be told again and again. -- Book Description
Ansel Adams did more than the right thing in 1944 when he wrote an appeal for justice. His book made the New York Times Book List at the same time it burned in San Francisco. Within months, his courageous book would disappear from the American landscape like the 120,000 interned Japanese Americans he wanted to make visible. Today his bold, conscience-driven story about the worst civil rights violation in American history deserves to be told again and again. -- Book Description
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When Ansel Adams wrote his powerful story about the fate of the Japanese Americans in 1944, the Army and War Relocation Authority reacted quickly with censorship to remove it from circulation. Then, when Emily Medvec organized the first national exhibition tour of Born Free and Equal in 1984, the Library of Congress canceled the tour by removing the original photographs a year later. We originally reissued this new Limited Edition of 3,000 copies to accompany the exhibition. There is a limited supply in stock for immediate delivery. The book contains nineteen (19) small black and white duotone reproductions to illustrate this controversial story.
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Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) was the most honored American photographer of the twentieth century. Through his exhibitions and publication of his work, his writings, and his leadership in the Sierra Club, Adams was also a prescient and highly effective voice in the fight to preserve America's remaining wilderness.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not just another Adams coffeetable book,
By Robert Wilson Haight (Kansas USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born Free and Equal: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs (Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science) (Paperback)
If you're looking to add to your Adams collection of beautiful landscapes, skip this book; there are only a dozen or two photos, and they are small. If you are looking for a powerful statement about Adams' character and beliefs, this is a must! I admired Adams' technical expertise for many years, collecting all his photo series and trying my hand at Zone method plates, view camera and all. I felt his photos were pretty but soulless, and consisted mostly of landscapes with very few people pictures (the famous Georgia O'Keefe portrait and few others.) Then in 1986 I had a few hours to kill in Kansas City and saw 50 of the photos at the Nelson. This exhibit, a reproduction of Adams' planned wartime show, is the only photographic show that has ever reduced me to tears. Powerful, relentless, truthful. I staggered out of the exhibit unable to drive for a while, and searched for the book. The book is flawed by inconsistent editing and deserves a new folio edition complete with page-sized prints. The omission of so many photos is why I do not give it 5 stars. Nevertheless, I deem it the last Adams book in my collection I would leave behind. It changed my view of Adams the man entirely. I consider it essential for knowledge of one of America's least shining hours. Were I a history or government teacher, I would build a unit around this book!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Very disapointing. Did not expect the condensed version.,
By r.e.sandberg@worldnet.att.net (Camarillo, CA 93010) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Born Free and Equal: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs (Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science) (Paperback)
I expected to get the book including all the Ansel Adams photos. Very few were included and those were postage stamp size.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting book, but too expensive for what it is.,
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This review is from: Born Free and Equal: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs (Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science) (Paperback)
This is the original limited edition (3000 copies printed) catalogue of the short-lived 1980s re-exhibition of Ansel Adams photographs from Manzanar relocation camp. As a book, it doesn't add up to much. It is only 44 pages long, and contains 19 thumbnail size reproductions of Ansel Adams' original photographs and a very abridged version of Ansel Adams' original text for his repressed book "Born Free and Equal" along with an introductory essay by Emily Medvec, curator of the exhibit. I would recommend this only for collectors of books about the WWII internment of Japanese Americans who must have everything ever published about it. For those interested in learning more about the Japanese American internment two much better books would be "Beyond Words : Images from America's Concentration Camps" by Deborah Gesensway and Mindy Roseman, or "Manzanar" by John Armour and Peter Wright. The latter book contains a very good selection of Ansel Adams' Manzanar photos and commentary by John Hersey.
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