MANZANAR – WARTIME PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANSEL ADAMS
2021-06-14Adams’s Manzanar photographs, created in 1943, are a departure from his signature style of landscape photography and serve as documentation of the Japanese relocation camp in California. The series was originally shown in the exhibition BORN FREE AND EQUAL: An Exhibition of Ansel Adams Photographs, organized by the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, History and Science in 1984. The photographs document a dark period for America and serve as a reminder “about an unfortunate moment in our 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.”
Opposite – Manzanar Street Scene, Spring, 1943
Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2021
Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown
NY 13326
