Lost LA

Three Views of Manzanar: Adams, Lange, Miyatake

Despite the trauma of their incarceration during World War II, Japanese Americans built new lives while detained at incarceration camps like Manzanar. Three renowned photographers captured scenes from the camp: outsiders Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams and incarceree Tōyō Miyatake who boldly smuggled in a camera lens to document life from within it.