I would like to share a new photography book I received in exchange for this review. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge (Author), Lauren Tamaki (Illustrator) which Charlie and I can use in our Homeschool Science Class.
Charlie and I enjoyed seeing the cover of the book down iun black and orange with a camera lens on the cover. The Sun abd a man with a camera is intriguing as you try and figure out what he is looking at. ALong with another man looking off into the distance. I wonder what he is thinking about.
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration is a book that touches on subject that might be touchy to some and hard to look at for others. Especially if you knew someone that lived in a incarceration camp.
Charlie and I liked seeing the map inside the cover of the book. We were able to look up and discuss the States in our Science Class in our lesson plans on the States
I like how the Author shares with us what the people was doing the day Japan bombed the U.S. Navel base at Peal Harbor. People were taken away and the next day the U.S. declared War on Japan. Can you imagine being there when this happened? I love the story the author has written for us with the amazing photos they’ve taken to share with us. I felt like I was with them.
We get to meet Dorthea Lange photographer for the War Relocation Authority and her photos and her thoughts. Then we meet Toyo Miyatake who was Imprisoned from 1942-1945 and is a Photographer At Manzanar. Charlie and I will be adding these photographers to our studies this year.
I can’t wait to share the phots featuring The Lunch Box Camera with David’s Uncle Don who is a photographer. I would like to find one for my home. Would you help me? last not least we meet Ansel Adams Photographer At Manzanar Fall 1942. You will see guns in this book but don’t let that stop you from sharing this amazing book with everyone you know.
We learn what happens after the War which Charlie and I enjoyed reading. As well as why words matter. We also were able to read how to keep our democracy strong. Make sure you take time to read “The Damage Of The Model Minority Myth”. I love how the author included notes in the back of the book and the pages we will find the information on which Charlie will be able to use in our History Class.
About:
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 businesses, and everything they owned. Japanese and Japanese Americans were forced to live under hostile conditions in incarceration camps, their futures uncertain.
Three photographers set out to document life at Manzanar, an incarceration camp in the California desert:
Dorothea Lange was a photographer from San Francisco best known for her haunting Depression-era images. Dorothea was hired by the US government to record the conditions of the camps. Deeply critical of the policy, she wanted her photos to shed light on the harsh reality of incarceration.
Toyo Miyatake was a Japanese-born, Los Angeles–based photographer who lent his artistic eye to portraying dancers, athletes, and events in the Japanese community. Imprisoned at Manzanar, he devised a way to smuggle in photographic equipment, determined to show what was really going on inside the barbed-wire confines of the camp.
Ansel Adams was an acclaimed landscape photographer and environmentalist. Hired by the director of Manzanar, Ansel hoped his carefully curated pictures would demonstrate to the rest of the United States the resilience of those in the camps.
In Seen and Unseen, Elizabeth Partridge and Lauren Tamaki weave together these photographers’ images, firsthand accounts, and stunning original art to examine the history, heartbreak, and injustice of the Japanese American incarceration.
AWARENESS OF AMERICAN HISTORY: This impactful book engages with an underrepresented topic in American history, and highlights important and timely themes like primary sources, censorship, and visual literacy.
SUBSTANTIAL BACKMATTER: Featuring eighteen pages of backmatter, including an Author’s and Illustrator’s Note, footnotes, photo credits, biographies of each photographer, and more.
Perfect for:
Parents
Educators
Librarians
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
