Design Observer :: Join the Discussion http://places.designobserver.com/feature/placing-memory/10657/ en-us Design Observer Group 2010-10-12T11:19:30-05:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 I like the feeing that the photos create, we know from history how terrible a place the camps were and the wrong immoral things that took place and these pictures show nothing of the dehumanizing side of the situation. The photos themselves are beautiful, the contemporary ones having a lonely remembrance and the old almost a sense of community. It shows how strong they were and how they got through the tough times. I think it is good to not show the wrongs that took place in this situation but to instead look back on it and show the power of those who made it through the injustice.]]> Nicole Howe http://places.designobserver.com/feature/placing-memory/10657/#comments 2010-10-12T11:19:30-05:00 Polonia Odahara Novack http://places.designobserver.com/feature/placing-memory/10657/#comments 2010-01-10T17:34:00-05:00
While the the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 was certainly immoral, it wasn't unconstitutional. The supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion order in Korematsu v. United States (1944). Over forty years later a reparations law was passed, granting compensation to interned idividuals, but that did not impact the supreme court decision. I personally think the Korematsu decision was wrong, but that's not what the supreme court said.
]]> Jerry Vandesic http://places.designobserver.com/feature/placing-memory/10657/#comments 2009-12-09T09:38:33-05:00 Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration, by Jasmine Alinder, University of Illinois Press.

Then wonder about what we see and don't see in the images that now pervade our lives.]]> Donlyn Lyndon http://places.designobserver.com/feature/placing-memory/10657/#comments 2009-12-08T09:36:35-05:00