Sep
21
Ansel Adams at Manzanar
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From an e-mail I received:
My name is Melissa and I work at the Japanese American National Museum located in downtown Los Angeles.
I am contacting you because I thought you might be interested in coming to see our next exhibition, “Ansel Adams at Manzanar,” which opens on November 11, 2006 and will run until February 18, 2006.
From 1943 to 1944, Ansel Adams made a number of trips to the Manzanar concentration camp, located in California’s Inyo County to the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Several months after his visit, Adams wrote to his friend Alfred Stieglitz that this was one of the most profoundly moving experiences of his life. Adams’ photographs capture the stark lives of thousands of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II and remain among the most powerful photographic records of the camp experience
as seen through the lens of an American master. Organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, “Ansel Adams at Manzanar” includes more than fifty vintage prints from the collections of the Library of Congress; Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; Honolulu Academy of Arts; and the Japanese American National Museum.
The National Museum would also be more than willing to set up group tours for your club, or even send you rack cards with more information about the exhibit and public programs that will be held in conjunction with the exhibit.
Please contact me at mnishimura@janm.org if you’d be interested.
Thank you so much for your time!
Melissa Nishimura
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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