Quote of the Day

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

- Dorothea Lange

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she gave up the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to record the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. She covered the internment of Japanese Americans and their subsequent incarceration. Her images were so obviously critical that the Army impounded most of them, and they were not seen publicly during the war.