Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment - Couverture rigide

Livre 3 sur 28: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West

Stewart, Todd; Leong, Karen J.

 
9780806139517: Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment
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ISBN 10 : 080613951X ISBN 13 : 9780806139517
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2008

Synopsis

When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as "domestic enemy aliens" during World War II, most other Americans succumbed to their fears and endorsed the confinement of their fellow citizens. Ten "relocation centers" were scattered across the West. Today, in the crumbling foundations, overgrown yards, and material artifacts of these former internment camps, we can still sense the injustices suffered there.

Placing Memory is a powerful visual record of the internment. Featuring Todd Stewart's stunning color photographs of the sites as they appear today, the book provides a rigorous visual survey of the physical features of the camps--roads, architectural remains, and monuments--along with maps and statistical information.

Also included in this volume--juxtaposed with Stewart's modern-day images--are the black-and-white photographs commissioned during the 1940s by the War Relocation Authority. Thoughtful essays by Karen Leong, Natasha Egan, and John Tateishi provide provocative context for all the photographs.

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À propos des auteurs

Todd Stewart is Art, Technology, and Culture Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Oklahoma. He is author-photographer of Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment, and his work has been shown nationally in more than twenty exhibitions.



Karen Leong is Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies program and Associate Professor of women's and gender studies at Arizona State University.

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Éditeur
University of Oklahoma Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080613951X
ISBN 13 
9780806139517
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
132
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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