Join exhibition curator Dennis Reed and special guest, author Naomi Hirahara, for a walkthrough of JANM’s exhibition, J. T. Sata: Immigrant Modernist. The exhibition comprises sixty photographs by J. T. Sata, photographs of Sata’s concentration camp paintings and drawings, and family artifacts from camp. Reed will talk about Sata’s photography and legacy as well as the process of curating the exhibition. Hirahara will provide insights on Sata’s experiences in the Santa Anita temporary detention center and the impact of World War II on his work and life.
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Bio
Dennis Reed
Dennis Reed is a curator, collector, artist, and writer who is best known for rediscovering Japanese American art photographers whose works were lost in the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. He has curated over 50 exhibitions for such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Huntington, the Corcoran Gallery, and JANM. Among his publications are Pictorialism in California: Photography, 1900-1940, Japanese Photography in America, 1920-1940, and Making Waves: Japanese American Photography, 1920-1940. He is the retired Dean of Arts at Los Angeles Valley College and the former chair of the Photographic Arts Council at LACMA.
Naomi Hirahara
Naomi Hirahara is a writer of the Edgar Award–winning Mas Arai mysteries, the historical mysteries Clark and Division and Evergreen, and numerous nonfiction books, including Terminal Island: Lost Communities on America’s Edge with Geraldine Knatz and Kagoshima 9066 Westridge, a retrospective of photographer J. T. Sata's life and work with his son, Frank Sata.
