Ansel put together a book of his images, Born Free and Equal, and was eager to have his photos of Manzanar shown at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. But as the museum considered the idea, it quickly became controversial to have a show on the incarceration. Finally, after a series of meetings, arguments, and misunderstandings, a small, modified show of Ansel’s photographs opened, demoted from the third floor to the basement. Ansel, disappointed and angry, didn’t even bother to go see it.
