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(RNS) — A descendant of prisoners at World War II camps dedicated her doctoral research to how the Japanese American community commemorates its forebears' experience.

During World War II, the photographer made surreptitious images of Japanese Americans incarcerated in California by the US government.

Compare Ansel Adams’s images with contemporary photographs of the same sights.

From Bohlin saddles to Navajo weavings, beat the tax-time blues with some soul-nourishing art therapy.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is celebrating two of the most important American photographers of the 20th century, Man Ray and Ansel Adams.

Adams artistry lies not within incarceration camp walls FacebookTwitterEmail 1of12 Ansel Adams, Baseball, 1943-44. Gelatin silver print (printed later). Photo courtesy Landau Traveling ExhibitionsLandau Traveling ExhibitionsShow MoreShow Less 2of12 Ansel Adams, Girl Smiling, 1943-44. Gelatin silver print (printed later). Photo courtesy Fenimore Art MuseumFenimore Art MuseumShow MoreShow Less 3of12 4of12 Ansel Adams, Entrance to Manzanar, 1943-44. Gelatin silver print (printed later). Photo cour...

March 15, 2021 Share When Giichi Matsumura arrived at his final resting place in late December, the people who knew him best when he disappeared from a Japanese internment camp in 1945 already were there. His wife, Ito, who had mourned his passing for 60 years before her death in 2005, was buried in the same plot, as was his daughter, Kazue, who died in 2018. His father, Katsuzo, who died in 1963, was nearby. His brother and two of his three sons were a short walk away, all buried in th...

Lost to mountain, Japanese internees bones return home BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 27 1of27Lilah Matsumura, 11, prays for for her great-grandfather, Giichi Matsumura, during a memorial service at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, Calif., Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. Giichi Matsumura, who died in the Sierra Nevada on a fishing trip while he was at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, was reburied in the same plot with his wife 75 years later after his remains...