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

by Elizabeth Partridge

There was just one catch. Toyo could do everything—set up the lighting and pose his subjects—but because he was Japanese, he was not allowed to press the button to take the picture, so white Americans were hired just to click the button. It was frustrating and humiliating for Toyo.