Welcome to my photo travel blog. I am a landscape and night photographer who conducts photography workshops in some of America’s most exotic landscapes. I just completed a travel guide to the best landscape photography locations in Southern California, to be available in September 2015.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Manzanar National Historic Site
On February 19, 1942, seventy-five years ago today, the President of the United States authorized our government to incarcerate Americans. More than 110,000 American citizens and immigrants of Japanese ancestry were forced to give up their homes, businesses, and ways of life.
This chapter of American history is included in history and civics education in California, but it doesn't seem to be common knowledge nationwide.
Ansel Adams photographed in and around Manzanar while it was in use. My 2006 photo to the right was taken near where he captured his photo "Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar".
I included Manzanar on page 90 of in my 320-page photographers' guidebook "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South".
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