Writing Homework Help

Three photographers,  Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake photographed and presented three very different views of the Japanese Internment in Manzanar during World War II. Read and watch the below materials and answer BOTH  questions.

(i) How were the three photographer’s images different in style and reception during and internment

(ii) Pick ONE favorite image of Manzanar by any of the above three photographers, embed the image into your response, and explain why you chose it.

Materials to Read & Watch

Watch: S4 E2:Three Views of Manzanar – Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake 

Let’s be honest, Ansel Adams’s images of a WWII internment camp are propaganda  in Boston Globe

NPR Codeswitch: Photos: 3 Very Different Views Of Japanese Internment 

Hyperallergic How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment 

LOC: Ansel Adams’s Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar 

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps  in anchoredition

Correcting the Record on Dorothea Lange’s Japanese Internment Photos  in the National Archives