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Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps: Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades..

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https://www.vox.com/22876650/photograph-japanese-concentration-camp-world-war
Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps: Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades.

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