Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

by Elizabeth Partridge

As long as there was light to photograph by, she kept going.

WHATEVER SHE PHOTOGRAPHED, Dorothea put layers of meaning in the image. A simple-looking photograph of a grandfather and grandson seems to ask a question: Why had the United States government locked up a very old man and a toddler? How were they a threat to our national security?