Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment

"Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment" is a book that showcases the work of Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer. Lange is renowned for her powerful portraits of displaced individuals during the Great Depression.31

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government, suspecting espionage despite a lack of evidence, forcibly relocated thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II. In 1942, Lange documented this mass evacuation of Japanese Americans to these camps. The book "Impounded" highlights these images, many of which were initially censored. Lange's work significantly influenced documentary and journalistic photography.231