Chapter 10 - Manzanar

In Chapter 10, Ansel Adams takes photographs at the Mazanar relocation camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. Many people did not understand his approach to taking the pictures. Though he was opposed to the relocation, his photos did not attempt to capture the bleak existence that the internees must have felt. Instead he showed them successfully adapting to the challenges they faced. It could easily be said that these photos had a propoganda quality about them. But as Ben said, he was not trying to trick people into believing it was OK there. He was trying to show that these families were just like everyone elses families - "they were not enemies".