Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dim 15 déc 2002 13:42:32 -0600 Matthew Powell <mlpowell@directvinternet.com> a écrit: > I saw this new-old Adams book in a magazine and it seemed a few might > be interested, after the technically-perfect-but-lacking-heart > discussion a week or so ago. > > It's Adams' documentary project on the Japanese-Americans interned > during WWII - has anyone seen any of the work? Good, worth trying to > find? Yes, more about this here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html And the book: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamborn.html <<<<<<< Adams's Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style of landscape photography. Although a majority of the photographs are portraits, the images also include views of daily life, agricultural scenes, and sports and leisure activities. When he offered the collection to the Library in 1965, Adams wrote, "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment. . . . All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document, and I trust it can be put to good use." >>>>>>> Oddmund - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html