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

by Elizabeth Partridge

WHILE LANGE PHOTOGRAPHED, Japanese Americans were making painful decisions. People had only a few weeks to prepare. They had to store their possessions or sell their cars and belongings for a fraction of what they were worth. Families had to give away their pets.