The 1930s-40s award-winning photographer Dorothea Lange was hired by the US Government to document the 1942 “evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans to internment camps.
'The military commanders that reviewed her work realized that Lange’s contrary point of view was evident through her photographs, and seized them for the duration of World War II, even writing “Impounded” across some of the prints. The photos were quietly deposited into the National Archives, where they remained largely unseen until 2006.'
This article shows some of those photos, along with some stories from the people involved.
Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the
National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until
2006Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photograph from 1936
Dorothea Lange—well-known for her FSA photographs like Migrant Mother—was
hired by the U.S. government to make a photographic record of the
“evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans in 1942. She was eager
to take the commis…
