The wartime internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans has been justified, castigated and publicly apologized for. For many people today it is also largely forgotten. Stewart (photography,
University of Oklahoma) visits the sites of the ten relocation centers, for the most part in areas that are still isolated and bleak. His landscape photos are interspersed with the propaganda
pictures that the government issued of the daily lives of the internees. Stewart states that the land seems to remember the sadness and his images reflect that. Essays by academics in
photography and Asian studies, one of whom was interned at Manzanar as a child, put the photos in their historical setting. Oversize 12.5x9.5". Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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