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Grandfather & grandson, Japanese relocation camp, Manzanar, California
Grandfather & grandson, Japanese relocation camp, Manzanar, California

Grandfather & grandson, Japanese relocation camp, Manzanar, California

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965)
Date1942
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 3/8 × 13 3/16 inches (26.35 × 33.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 inches (27.94 × 35.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4198
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "J120"
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionImage of a Japanese man with a child on his shoulders (grandfather and grandson).Exhibition History
Rotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.
Gallery Label

Though best known for her work for the Farm Security Administration, Lange also documented

the forced government relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps in California in

1942. Here, a man carries his grandson and looks wearily into the camera. Images such as this one

convey Lange’s deep sympathies for the plight of her subjects. Lange’s humanitarian tendencies proved problematic for officials. The U.S. government suppressed a majority of these photographs. Many were never seen publicly until after the end of WWII.

Provenance
Houk Friedman Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Houk Friedman Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1992; 
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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