Incarceration Exhibitions

Then They Came for Me: Japanese American in the Incarceration camp
For the gallery show review, I went to the International Center of Photography Museum where tons of photographs, interview videos, primary and secondary documents and objects are exhibited. Each of these artworks reveal the brutal truth of World War II. During World War II, thousands of Japanese Americans living in the West Coast were forcefully evicted from their houses and were moved into 10 different incarceration camps where they were guarded by military personnels. The constitutional rights of Japanese Americans were violated by the United States government, and these events were captured in photographs by photographers like Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Clem Albers, Toyo Miyatake, and Russell Lee. These evidences of terror from World War II justify the title of the exhibition Then They Came for Me: Japanese American in the Incarceration camp. All the

These galleries are organized based on the transition history of these Japanese Americans victims. For instance, the artworks in the the first gallery describe the “settlements of Japanese Immigrants in the United States” (Exhibition text). The second gallery focuses on the Executive Order 9066, which commands that all Japanese American citizens and legal immigrants must be sent to incarceration camps. The second gallery is the largest and most important gallery of all three because it shows the journey to and life of these Japanese Americans in incarceration camps. The interview videos of Japanese Americans who lived in incarceration camps during World War II make the second gallery even more interesting. The last gallery focuses on the end of these Japanese Americans lives at incarceration camps and beginning of their journey as free individuals post World War