Manzanar_calisthenics_0016u.jpg

Summary

Calesthenics [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams. ( Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL) )
Author
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) wikidata:Q60809 q:en:Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Alternative names
Ansel Easton Adams
Description American photographer, pianist, writer, mountaineer, university teacher and environmentalist
Date of birth/death 20 February 1902 Edit this at Wikidata 22 April 1984 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Francisco Carmel-by-the-Sea
Work period 1930 Edit this at Wikidata –1984 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
American West
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q60809
Title
Calesthenics [sic] / photograph by Ansel Adams.
Description
Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley , California . In 1943, Ansel Adams followed an invitation by newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to photograph the everyday life of the Japanese American internees in the camp. Unlike his colleague Dorothea Lange , whose pictures for the War Relocation Authority focused on the hardship and humiliation of the deportation and internment, Adams's intent was to "show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, (…) had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment." (Ansel Adams, 1965)
Group of girls standing in line formation, each one reaching both of her arms straight out to the side.
Date Taken in 1943
Medium 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. 1 negative: nitrate.
institution QS:P195,Q131454

Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Part of: Ansel Adams Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs
Accession number
Call Number
LOT 10479-7, no. 11
LC-DIG-ppprs-00419 DLC (b&w digital file from original print)
LC-DIG-ppprs-00160 DLC (b&w digital file from original neg.)
LC-A35-T01-6-M-8 DLC (b&w film dup. neg.)
Notes
Title transcribed from Ansel Adams' caption on verso of print.
Original neg. no.: LC-A35-6-M-8.
Gift; Ansel Adams; 1965-1968.
Forms part of: Manzanar War Relocation Center photographs.
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppprs.00419 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppprs.00160 .
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing .

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Captions

Female Japanese American internees practicing calisthenics in 1943 at Manzanar War Relocation Center, California. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

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