Two Ways of Looking at The Terror: Infamy’s Finale
AMC’s series about the Japanese American internment ends with a message about the importance of remembering the past. But it forgets the historical horror at the heart of the show.
Revisiting Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray: An interview with Robert Nakamura and Karen Ishizuka
Revisiting the work of modernist photographer-turned prison camp inmate and documentarian Toyo Miyatake.
JANM Photo Exhibit: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank
Comparing the U.S. and Canadian WWII government prison camp experiences through the work of two photographers.
A Mother's Farewell to Heart Mountain
My mother's reaction to returning to a WWII U.S. government prison camp 70 years after her release.
The History Page: Order of Infamy
Essay marking the 70th anniversary of FDR's signing of Executive Order 9066.
Documenting Manzanar: Exploring the World War II prison camp through the images of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake
The first of an 18-part essay series on the images of three photographers who documented the World War II U.S. government prison camp Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake. Like Miyatake, my father and his entire family were imprisoned at Manzanar during the war.