Exhibit | Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams, Pictures on Top of Phonograph, Yanemitsu home , 1943. Gelatin silver print (printed 1984). Private collection; courtesy of Photographic Traveling Exhibitions.

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States government set up ten camps during World War II to inter approximately 120,000 Japanese American citizens and legal…