Dorothea Lange Japanese Internment Photographs: Difference between revisions

'''Location:''' California, United States

'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Dorothea Lange's Japanese Internment Photographs'', are a series of black and white images which document the 1941 Japanese American Internment. The photographs depict the rounding up of Japanese Americans who were living along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. This photojournalistic project was assigned to Dorothea Lange by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), possibly to prove that the detainees were not being mistreated and that the international law was not violated. Most of the photos highlight Manzanar, the first of the internment camps. In her work, Lange emphasizes the detainees' essential Americanness, as 62% were reported to have been American citizens, and is uncompromising of the conditions of the permanent internment camps.