EPISODE · Jan 6, 2021 · 42 MIN
Cameras
from Campu · host Densho
Pictures allow us to peer into the past, but those images are often far more complicated than what initially meets the eye. Photographs (and the people who took them) portrayed Japanese Americans as menacing threats, as hapless victims, as model Americans. But there were also covert acts of resistance playing out on both sides of the camera. In this episode, we talk about the visual record of WWII incarceration and the stories that unfolded behind the lens. About what you see — and what you don’t. See episode transcripts and learn more at www.densho.org/campuResources for teaching with Campu can be found at www.densho.org/campu-education-hubFollow @DenshoProject on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Pictures allow us to peer into the past, but those images are often far more complicated than what initially meets the eye. Photographs (and the people who took them) portrayed Japanese Americans as menacing threats, as hapless victims, as model Americans. But there were also covert acts of resistance playing out on both sides of the camera. In this episode, we talk about the visual record of WWII incarceration and the stories that unfolded behind the lens. About what you see — and what you don’t. See episode transcripts and learn more at www.densho.org/campuResources for teaching with Campu can be found at www.densho.org/campu-education-hubFollow @DenshoProject on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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