Photographs by Dorothea Lange and Paul Kitagaki, Jr. (free)

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Exhibition

Apr 201228 May 201231

San Bruno BART Station
What: Photography Exhibit by Paul Kitagaki Jr.
Where: San Bruno BART Station, Concourse Level 1151 Huntington Avenue
San Bruno, California, 94066
United States


"They wore their best ... The Japanese-American Evacuation and After"

Photographs by famous documentary photographer Dorothea Lange (National Archives) and SacBee photographer Paul Kitagaki, Jr.

At the San Bruno BART station, the site where the Tanforan Assembly Center was. At this site Japanese Americans were herded up in 1942 before their were sent to permanent internment camps. Amongst them were Kitagaki's father, aunt, and grandparents.

Exhibit runs through Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month (May 2012).

 

Komo . Last modified May 04, 2012 1:34 a.m.


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