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Camera in Camp: Bill Manbo's Photographs of Heart Mountain

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In Person
Japanese American National Museum
100 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Date: Aug. 30, 2014

Time: 2 p.m.



Historian Jasmine Alinder will give a lecture on photography and Japanese American incarceration that will feature the work of Bill Manbo who was imprisoned in Heart Mountain. Alinder will place Manbo's rare color photographs in the context of work by other famous photographers of that time including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Carl Iwasaki. 

Alinder is author of Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration and contributing author to Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

In conjunction with the exhibition Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

For more up-to-date information about this event and others, please visit the Japanese American National Museum's webpage: http://www.janm.org/events/#30


Bill Manbo Colors of Confinement (exhibition) Heart Mountain concentration camp Hirasaki National Resource Center Kodachrome Little Tokyo photographs

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