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Skirball Center opening Japanese American wartime concentration camp exhibitions

 Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049
 
Manzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams
Citizen 13660: The Art of Mine Okubo
 
October 8, 2015-February 21, 2016
 
The Skirball Cultural Center is openingManzanar: The Wartime Photographs of Ansel Adams, featuring fifty little-known photographs by Ansel Adams (1902-1984) that depict the treatment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar incarceration camp in central California.
 
Taken during World War II, the black and white works were originally published in Adams's book Born Free and Equal (1944) in which he protested what he called the "enforced exodus" of a minority of citizens.
 
In the exhibition, Adams's portfolio is complemented by the work of contemporaries Dorothea Lange and Toyo Miyatake, who also photographed Manzanar during the war.
 
Also on view are documents, publications, propaganda materials, artifacts, and artwork detailing life and conditions at the camp.


 
Concurrently, the Skirball is opening Citizen 13660: The Art of Min� Okubo.
 
Based on an illustrated memoir of the same name, this companion exhibition features the work of Japanese American artist Min� Okubo (1912-2001), who recorded her everyday struggles at two incarceration camps (Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, Calif. and Topaz Camp in Delta, Utah) through poignant pen and ink drawings and incisive commentary.
 
The Skirball Cultural Center is located at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049.
 
Museum hours: Tuesday-Friday 12:00-5:00 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; closed Mondays and holidays.
 
Admission to exhibitions: $10 General; Exhibitions are free to all visitors on Thursdays.
 
For general information, the public may call (310) 440-4500 or visit skirball.org.


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