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

by Elizabeth Partridge

It was, she explained later, “the most important thing that happened to me, and formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and humiliated me.” It also made her deeply empathetic to the suffering of others, and she committed to doing what she could to help.