Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

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Linda Gordon (New York University) Gary Y. Okihiro (Columbia University)

Impounded

Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

Linda Gordon (New York University), Gary Y. Okihiro (Columbia University), Gary Y. Okihiro

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Norton
08 January 2010

Photographic reportage; History; History of the Americas; Second World War; Prisoners of war

This indelible work of visual and social history confirms Dorothea Lange's stature as one of the twentieth century's greatest American photographers. Presenting 119 images originally censored by the U.S. Army?the majority of which have never been published?

Impounded evokes the horror of a community uprooted in the early 1940s and the stark reality of the internment camps. With poignancy and sage insight, nationally known historians Linda Gordon and Gary Okihiro illuminate the saga of Japanese American internment: from life before Executive Order 9066 to the abrupt roundups and the marginal existence in the bleak, sandswept camps. In the tradition of Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World, Impounded, with the immediacy of its photographs, tells the story of the thousands of lives unalterably shattered by racial hatred brought on by the passions of war.

Edited by: Linda Gordon (New York University), Gary Y. Okihiro (Columbia University), Gary Y. Okihiro
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 573g
ISBN: 9780393330908
ISBN 10: 0393330907
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 08 January 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

LINDA GORDON is professor of history at New York University. GARY Y: OKIHIRO is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University.

Reviews for Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

In these days of fear of the terrorist 'other', reading this measured, intelligent introduction to a time that is all-too possible to imagine recurring, and looking at Lange's photos... may be one of the most useful things one can do this Christmas. -- The Sunday Times [London] [The] images show Americans of Japanese extraction being relocated to 'assembly centers', labeled and processed like cattle and closeted away in dismal shacks for the duration of the war... No wonder her pictures were never used and disappeared for half a century. -- The Independent [UK] Through her discerning and sensitive eye, Lange's observations of the situation were too real and too critical for the government, and were consequently confiscated. -- Amateur Photographer [T]he bulk of the book is given over to Lange's photographs. Several of these are as powerful as her most stirring work, and the final image-of a grandfather in the desolate Manzanar Center looking down in anguish at the grandson between his knees-is worth the price of the book alone. -- Publishers Weekly