Sept. 30, 2023 - Jan. 14, 2024
Reception: Nov. 10, 6-8 pm
Main Gallery | $7 Admission Ages 13+

This exhibition features photographs by Ansel Adams of the Japanese American relocation camp in Manzanar, California, during World War II.

These photographs are the subject of his controversial book Born Free and Equal, which protested the treatment of these American citizens. Adams’s Manzanar work is a departure from his signature style of landscape photography.

Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus, Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, writes in the exhibition essay, “This is not an art exhibition, a history lesson, or a study in race relations; it is all three. The hope is that it educates us about an unfortunate moment in the country’s history that must be better understood. It also should serve as a warning as to what can occur when emotion and fear overwhelm clarity and courage.”

Exhibition organized by Photographic Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. www.thelovelandmuseum.org/manzanar-ansel-adams

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