Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration

This nonfiction account examines the World War II imprisonment of people of Japanese descent in the United States through photographs and firsthand accounts. It follows Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams, whose work reflected different circumstances and constraints. Lange documented injustice, though the military censored many candid photographs. At Manzanar, imprisoned photographer Toyo Miyatake secretly made a camera and recorded camp life, later photographing events there under government restrictions.