Ansel Adams

"More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes at the start of World War II and transported to desolate detention centers after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in early 1942. Paul Kitagaki's parents and grandparents were part of that group, but they never talked about their experience. To better understand, Kitagaki tracked down the subjects of more than sixty photographs taken by Dorothea...

"The cameras I used ranged from an old 4 x 5 Graflex to a modern Nikkon 35mm. Most of the color was shot with 35mm Ektachrome and Kodacolor. The 4 x 5 negatives were shot with the old Graflex as were a few of the 4 x 5 black and whites. The majority of the black and whites were made with a Rolliflex camera on slow but very fine grain film. I always use the smallest stop possible under the light conditions because I prefer depth of focus. In my portraits...