Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

In an account that masterfully combines text and illustration, the works of three different photographers are used to showcase and examine the unjust incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during WWII.

• Nonfiction, Arts, Visual Arts
• Notable Children's Books 2023, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2023 (Medal Winner)
• Age: Middle
• Format: Book
• ISBN: 9781452165103

Notes

From the 2023 Sibert press release:

“Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration,” published by Chronicle Books, centers on three different photographers and how their work frames understandings around the American incarceration of people of Japanese descent during World War II.

“This visually stunning book engages readers by inviting them to explore primary sources and to critically question the world around them and how it is documented,” said Sibert Medal Committee Chair Elisa Gall.