Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II

"More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes at the start of World...
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Author: Paul Kitagaki Jr
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Language: English
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Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II by Kitagaki Jr, Paul

Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II

CHF 53.98

Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II

CHF 53.98
Author: Paul Kitagaki Jr
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes at the start of World War II and transported to desolate detention centers after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in early 1942. Paul Kitagaki's parents and grandparents were part of that group, but they never talked about their experience. To better understand, Kitagaki tracked down the subjects of more than sixty photographs taken by Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and other photographers. This book is a result of that work, which took Kitagaki on a ten-year pilgrimage around the country photographing survivors of camps"--

Author: Paul Kitagaki Jr
Publisher: Cityfiles Press
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 10.20h x 11.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780991541812


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2019 pg. 86

About the Author
Paul Kitagaki Jr. has been published in news outlets worldwide, including National Geographic, Time, Smithsonian and Sports Illustrated. His powerful images are published daily in The Sacramento Bee. During his career, he has photographed the Olympics, the World Series and Super Bowls. He covered national and international stories from Vietnam to Iraq. He was a staff member of The San Jose (California) Mercury News, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for general news reporting. In 2015, he created Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing Over Adversity, a national traveling exhibition. This book expands the project to include Kitagaki's story and more photographs.


Dorothea Lange took many of the original photographs in this book. One of the most accomplished documentary photographers of the 20th century, she documented the first stage of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.


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