{"id":132205,"date":"2016-12-10T23:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T06:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/the-things-we-did.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T00:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T07:31:28","slug":"the-things-we-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/the-things-we-did.html","title":{"rendered":"The Things We Did"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

'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.'<\/i><\/p>\n

This article shows some of those photos, along with some stories from the people involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nDorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps<\/a><\/span>
\nThe military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the
\nNational Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until
\n2006<\/p>\n

Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother photograph from 1936<\/p>\n

Dorothea Lange—well-known for her FSA photographs like Migrant Mother—was
\nhired by the U.S. government to make a photographic record of the
\n“evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans in 1942. She was eager
\nto take the commis…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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. 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