Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II

In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented his surroundings using Kodachrome film, a technology then just seven years old, to capture community celebrations and to record his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment. Colors of Confinement showcases sixty-five stunning images from this extremely rare collection of color photographs, presented along with three interpretive essays by leading scholars and a reflective, personal essay by a former Heart Mountain internee.

• Author
• Bill Manbo, Eric L. Muller

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 122

• Publisher
• University of North Carolina Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780807835739

• Settings
• Wyoming

• Genres
• photography, history, art, war, japan

• Release date
• 2012