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

by Elizabeth Partridge

Toyo was a talented artist. He wanted to be an oil painter, but his mother was opposed to the idea. It seemed highly impractical to her. Instead, Toyo turned to photography, working in the style known as pictorialism, using the camera to make artistic photographs rather than straightforward photos.