The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006,
Dorothea Lange—well-known for her FSA photographs like Migrant Mother—was hired by the U.S. government to make a photographic record of the “evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans in 1942. She was eager to take the commission, despite being opposed to the effort, as she believed “a true record of the evacuation would be valuable in the future.
”The military commanders that reviewed her work realized that Lange’s contrary point of view was evident through her photographs, and seized them for…
Source: Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions
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Lange’s photography is so good, I found myself forgetting the subject matter, and revelling in the excellence of the B&W shots. I went back and read all the text again. Very sad.
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And some people think of FDR as a God – yet he did this! Mind-boggling. Ms. Lange was an excellent photographer.
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