Born Free and Equal: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs, Abridged Edition (Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science)

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Review "The fatal phase, a Jap's a Jap,might well have poisoned the course of racial tolerance for years to come." Ansel Adams, 1944"It is one of the publications designed to temper one of our prejudices, and I think it does it successfully." Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, 1945."Politics suppressed the exhibit of Adams' Manzanar photos twice, in its inaugural showing at the Museum of Modern Art in November, 1944,and now the Library of Congress has ordered the photographs back to Washington." Los Angeles Times, 1985."The politically engaged character of this project may surprise admirers of Ansel Adams. Adams always implied a judgement, a comparison of nature to the meanness of man."Dan Hoffman, Kansas City Star, 1987 -- Book DescriptionAnsel Adams did more than the right thing in 1944 when he wrote an appeal for justice. His book made the New York Times Book List at the same time it burned in San Francisco. Within months, his courageous book would disappear from the American landscape like the 120,000 interned Japanese Americans he wanted to make visible. Today his bold, conscience-driven story about the worst civil rights violation in American history deserves to be told again and again. -- Book Description Read more From the Publisher When Ansel Adams wrote his powerful story about the fate of the Japanese Americans in 1944, the Army and War Relocation Authority reacted quickly with censorship to remove it from circulation. Then, when Emily Medvec organized the first national exhibition tour of Born Free and Equal in 1984, the Library of Congress canceled the tour by removing the original photographs a year later. We originally reissued this new Limited Edition of 3,000 copies to accompany the exhibition. There is a limited supply in stock for immediate delivery. The book contains nineteen (19) small black and white duotone reproductions to illustrate this controversial story. Read more See all Editorial Reviews

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If you want to see Adams's photos, many of them are in a terrific book, "Manzanar," by John Armor and Peter Wright. About half the text is an essay by John Hersey on how Manzanar and the other US concentration camps came to be and how they were closed; the text by Armor and Wright is about life in Manzanar while it was active. Unfortunately, this book, published in 1988, is now out of print. (Please ignore my rating of 5 stars, as I didn't read the Adams book.)

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