Previous Exhibit: PASSAGES FROM POSTON: Contemporary photographs of a former Japanese American confinement site. Photographs by Ira Nowinski

PASSAGES FROM POSTON: Contemporary photographs of a former Japanese American confinement site. Photographs by Ira Nowinski 

Renovated by Colorado River Indian Tribes, former Colorado River “Relocation Center,” Poston Camp I
Archival Pigment Print. Ira Nowinski / The Bancroft Library, 2009

The National Japanese American Historical Society, Inc. presents PASSAGES FROM POSTON: Contemporary photographs of a former Japanese American confinement site. Photographs by Ira Nowinski. Twenty-five (25) contemporary photographs from The Ira Nowinski California Native American Photograph Archive at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley are on display currently at Building 640, MIS Historic Learning Center, Presidio of San Francisco. The exhibit features stirring photographs taken by professional documentary photographer Ira Nowinski at the historic Poston Arizona “War Relocation Authority” camp of World War II. According to Nowinski, “while photographing California Native Americans, I was invited by the Director of the Mojave Museum on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation to photograph Poston and Tribal Recognition Day in early March of 2009. It was explained to me that there were many buildings still standing from the internment and the resulting photographs feature these buildings in states of disrepair. The school buildings in Camp I, built by the Japanese internees were used by tribal members for alcohol recovery centers and other tribal uses after World War II”.

Dates of Exhibition: May 3, 2014 through October 31, 2014
Open weekends 12 – 5 pm
Museum Admission is $10 person. Free Admission for NJAHS members, veterans, and children 12 and under.