Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal Winner of the BolognaRagazzi Award for PhotographyNamed a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and others. ? “This arresting work brings history to vivid life.” -Kirkus Reviews,starred review? “[An] exquisitely crafted, fiercely provocative work of nonfiction.” -BCCB,starred review“Ingeniously designed.” -The New York Times This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers-Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams-along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history. Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D.Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States.Families, teachers, farm workers-all were ordered to leave behind their homes, their busin