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Bridging the Past and Present: Preserving History Through the Tanaka Photo Studio Collection
My grandmother grew up in Hiroshima. She was 11 years old on August 6, 1945. Many lives were lost a…

Nara Duffie • Aug. 24, 2023

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California Chikashi Tanaka collections (objects) digital collections generations Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship immigrants immigration internships Issei JANM collection Japan Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration museum objects photographers photography prewar Tanaka Studio Collection United States
California Chikashi Tanaka collections (objects) digital collections generations Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship immigrants immigration internships Issei JANM collection Japan Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration museum objects photographers photography prewar Tanaka Studio Collection United States
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My Name is Neal
Journal Entry #Between 50 and 80mm: "Digital Shots..."
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • July 15, 2023

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cartoonists cartoons humor photography portraits selfies (photography) self-portraits
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Ansel Adams and Born Free and Equal: Another View
A number of scholars, including Nancy Matsumoto, Jasmine Alinder, and Elena Tajima Creef among othe…

Greg Robinson • June 5, 2023

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Ansel Adams Born Free and Equal (book) California concentration camps Manzanar concentration camp photographs photography United States World War II camps
Ansel Adams Born Free and Equal (book) California concentration camps Manzanar concentration camp photographs photography United States World War II camps
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On Nikkei
Part 26: Interview with Tsuneo Enari, author of "The Bride of America"
As the hidden history of postwar Japan Photographer Tsuneo Enari, who has captured things that pos…

Ryusuke Kawai • April 14, 2023

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brides migration photographers photography Tsuneo Enari war brides wives
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On Nikkei
#25 Recollections of Toru Suwa, a photojournalist living in America with a camera
Inspired by Kenichi Horie and Minoru Oda Kenichi Horie (84), an ocean adventurer, was recently awar…

Ryusuke Kawai • March 10, 2023

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Akira Suwa photojournalism
Akira Suwa photojournalism
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Kaoru Higuchi, a former immigrant to Brazil and resident in Los Angeles, is a photographer at Jornal do Brasil.
On November 3rd during the 7th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival, the "Nahato Comes to Machigwa: …

Masayuki Fukasawa • Jan. 25, 2023

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Brazil California cameras Kaoru Higuchi Los Angeles Manila migration Nikon cameras Philippines photographers photography Rio de Janeiro United States
Brazil California cameras Kaoru Higuchi Los Angeles Manila migration Nikon cameras Philippines photographers photography Rio de Janeiro United States
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Love and Reckoning: A Meditation On Family Photos
In my childhood home in Roseville, California, we had a room we called “the den.” It wa…

Tamiko Nimura • Dec. 6, 2022

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families family histories genealogy memory World War II camps
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Part 3—Wakaji's Legacy
Read Part 2 >>  Reportage or Art? Wakaji produced countless individual portraits, docu…

Dennis Reed • Oct. 3, 2022

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1920s 1930s agriculture arts atomic bomb California farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar United States Wakaji Matsumoto World War II
1920s 1930s agriculture arts atomic bomb California farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar United States Wakaji Matsumoto World War II
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Part 2—Wakaji’s Photography
Read Part 1 >> While Tei managed the farm, Wakaji pursued his gifts. He first studied phot…

Dennis Reed • Sept. 26, 2022

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1920s agriculture artists arts California communities farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto
1920s agriculture artists arts California communities farming generations Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography prewar Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto
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Two Worlds: The Life and Photography of Wakaji Matsumoto
Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds
My grandfather, Wakaji Matsumoto, traveled across the Pacific Ocean to help his father in a forei…

Karen Matsumoto • Sept. 20, 2022

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agriculture atomic bomb brides California families family histories farming genealogy generations Hawaii Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture household employees immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography picture brides postwar prewar Southern California Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto wives World War II
agriculture atomic bomb brides California families family histories farming genealogy generations Hawaii Hiroshima (city) Hiroshima Prefecture household employees immigrants immigration Issei Japan Little Tokyo Los Angeles migration photographers photography picture brides postwar prewar Southern California Toyo Miyatake United States Wakaji Matsumoto wives World War II
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