Lunch Bag Talk—Professor Gary Y. Okihiro, Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
Gary Y. Okihiro, renowned professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University offered an account of the World War II interment of some 120,000 Japanese Americans as documented by the noted photographer, Dorothea Lange.
Time:
Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00 p.m.
Location:
Archives of American Art Boardroom
Victor Building, 2nd floor
750 Ninth St., NW
Metro:
Gallery Place
Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00 p.m.
Location:
Archives of American Art Boardroom
Victor Building, 2nd floor
750 Ninth St., NW
Metro:
Gallery Place
Dr. Okihiro provided background of the incarceration and significance of the Lange images and told the story from the internees’ prospective.
Discussion