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Lectures & Discussions

Camera in Camp: Bill Manbo's Photographs of Heart Mountain

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Lectures & Discussions

Camera in Camp: Bill Manbo's Photographs of Heart Mountain

Historian Jasmine Alinder will give a lecture on photography and Japanese American incarceration that will feature the work of Bill Manbo who was imprisoned in Heart Mountain. Alinder will place Manbo's rare color photographs in the context of work by other famous photographers of that time including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Carl Iwasaki.

Alinder is author of Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration and contributing author to Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II.

Saturday, Aug 30, 2014

2:00 PM PDT

Historian Jasmine Alinder will give a lecture on photography and Japanese American incarceration that will feature the work of Bill Manbo who was imprisoned in Heart Mountain. Alinder will place Manbo's rare color photographs in the context of work by other famous photographers of that time including Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Carl Iwasaki.

Alinder is author of Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration and contributing author to Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II.

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