"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
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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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