{"id":9704,"date":"2016-02-22T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2016-02-22T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:18:24","slug":"ansel-adams-slides-portray-the-lives-of-detained-japanese-americans-in-1943-wwii-internment-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/ansel-adams-slides-portray-the-lives-of-detained-japanese-americans-in-1943-wwii-internment-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansel Adams&#8217; slides portray the lives of detained Japanese Americans in 1943 WWII internment camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9706\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/here-from-left-to-right-louise-tami-nakamura-holds-the-hand-of-mrs-naguchi-with-joyce-yuki-nakamura-ansel-adams-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"Louise Tami and Joyce Yuki Nakamura hold Mrs. Naguchi&#039;s hands\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/here-from-left-to-right-louise-tami-nakamura-holds-the-hand-of-mrs-naguchi-with-joyce-yuki-nakamura-ansel-adams.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/here-from-left-to-right-louise-tami-nakamura-holds-the-hand-of-mrs-naguchi-with-joyce-yuki-nakamura-ansel-adams-225x162.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/here-from-left-to-right-louise-tami-nakamura-holds-the-hand-of-mrs-naguchi-with-joyce-yuki-nakamura-ansel-adams-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/here-from-left-to-right-louise-tami-nakamura-holds-the-hand-of-mrs-naguchi-with-joyce-yuki-nakamura-ansel-adams-768x554.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Library of Congress collection of Ansel Adams&#8217; Japanese internment camp photos, 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n110,000 Japanese American citizens, some of them US military personnel, were detained in detention camps during the WWII. In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the lives of Japanese living in the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Adams donated the photographs to the Library of Congress in 1965, commenting,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See 45 more of these photos at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ansel-adams-internment-camp-photos-2013-8?op=1\">Business Insider<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>110,000 Japanese American citizens, some of them US military personnel, were detained in detention camps during the WWII. In 1943, Ansel Adams documented the lives of Japanese living in the Manzanar War Relocation Camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Adams donated the photographs to the Library of Congress in 1965, commenting, The purpose of my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/ansel-adams-slides-portray-the-lives-of-detained-japanese-americans-in-1943-wwii-internment-camps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ansel Adams&#8217; slides portray the lives of detained Japanese Americans in 1943 WWII internment camps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1082,5,563],"tags":[2313,2311,2312],"class_list":["post-9704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-dei","category-government-trade","category-justice","tag-internment","tag-japanese","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9711,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions\/9711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}