Moving Images

by Alinder, Jasmine

• ISBN13: 9780252078095
• ISBN10: 0252078098
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-06
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

When the American government began impounding Japanese American citizens after Pearl Harbor, photography became a battleground. The control of the means of representation affected nearly every aspect of the incarceration, from the mug shots criminalizing Japanese Americans to the prohibition of cameras in the hands of inmates. The government also hired photographers to make an extensive record of the forced removal and incarceration. In this insightful study, Jasmine Alinder explores the photographic record of the imprisonment in war relocation centers such as Manzanar, Tule Lake, Jerome, and others. She investigates why photographs were made, how they were meant to function, and how they have been reproduced and interpreted subsequently by the popular press and museums in constructing versions of public history.Alinder provides calibrated readings of the photographs from this period, including works by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Manzanar camp inmate Toyo Miyatake (who constructed his own camera to document the complicated realities of camp life), and contemporary artists Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi. Illustrated with more than forty photographs,Moving Imagesreveals the significance of the camera in the process of incarceration as well as the construction of race, citizenship, and patriotism in this complex historical moment.

Author Biography

Jasmine Alinder is an associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
When the Innocents Suffer: Dorothea Lange and the War Relocation Authority	p. 23
The Landscape of Loyalty: Ansel Adams's Born Free and Equal	p. 44
The Right to Represent: Toyo Miyatake's Photographs of Manzanar	p. 75
Art/History: Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in the Museum	p. 103
Virtual Pilgrimage: The Contemporary Incarceration Photography of Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi	p. 126
Epilogue	p. 155
Notes	p. 163
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 201
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