Nonfiction Review: Seen and Unseen

 

Part graphic novel and part nonfiction by three photographers: Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams about the Japanese Internment Camps in America during WWII.

This wasn't something I learned about in school.

But this book shares:

1. There were 10 prison camps

2. There were 17 Detention Centers (all on the West Coast)

3. Even Babies were disloyal

4. Dorothea Lange wanted to show the terribleness of it all. She was horrified by what she saw. Toyo Miyatake was inside the camp. He wanted to show everything. Ansel Adams posed people in his pictures. 

5. Conditions were terrible

My Thoughts: This book was eye-opening. There were a lot of great photographs and illustrations. There wasn't too much text. But the text was powerful. It's hard to read about, but also very important to read about - to know our horrific history as a country. 

This is a must have book for all school and public library collections. 

Other Books to read:

Picture Book

Graphic Novel