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Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until
Dorothea Lange—well known for her FSA photographs like Migrant Mother—was hired by the U.S.
government to make a photographic record of the “evacuation” and “relocation” of Japanese-Americans in She was eager to take the commission, despite being opposed to the effort, as she believed “a true record of the evacuation would be valuable in the future.”
The military commanders that reviewed her work realized that Lange’s contrary point of view was evident through her photographs, and seized them for the duration of World War II, even writing “Impounded” across some of the prints.
The photos were quietly deposited into the National Archives, where they remained largely unseen until
I wrote more about the history of Lange’s photos and President Roosevelt’s Ex