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Three Views of Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake #402

PBS SoCal Encore

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Despite the trauma of their incarceration during World War II, Japanese Americans built new lives while detained at concentration camps like Manzanar. They played baseball, planted gardens and made the honor roll. Three renowned photographers captured these scenes: outsiders Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams and incarceree Tōyō Miyatake who boldly smuggled in a camera lens to document life from within the camp. All three trained their lenses on small yet profound moments of dignity and domesticity, documenting resilience in the face of civil injustice. This episode compares and contrasts their approaches and politics encoded in their work.

Broadcast In: English Duration: 0:26:40
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1:00pm, 08/04/2026 | PBS SoCal Encore

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Calendar Lost LA: Three Views of Manzanar: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake (PBS SoCal Encore) Despite the trauma of their incarceration during World War II, Japanese Americans built new lives while detained at concentration camps like Manzanar. They played baseball, planted gardens and made the honor roll. Three renowned photographers captured these scenes: outsiders Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams and incarceree Tōyō Miyatake who boldly smuggled in a camera lens to document life from within the camp. All three trained their lenses on small yet profound moments of dignity and domesticity, documenting resilience in the face of civil injustice. This episode compares and contrasts their approaches and politics encoded in their work. http://proweb.myersinfosys.com/koce/airlist/14810/detail.ics