Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II

Author: Paul Kitagaki Jr
Publisher: Cityfiles Press
Published: 09/01/2019
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.70lbs
Size: 10.20h x 11.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780991541812

About the Author
Paul Kitagaki Jr. has been published in news outlets worldwide, including National Geographic, Time, Smithsonian and Sports Illustrated. His powerful images are published daily in The Sacramento Bee. During his career, he has photographed the Olympics, the World Series and Super Bowls. He covered national and international stories from Vietnam to Iraq. He was a staff member of The San Jose (California) Mercury News, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for general news reporting. In 2015, he created Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing Over Adversity, a national traveling exhibition. This book expands the project to include Kitagaki's story and more photographs.

Dorothea Lange took many of the original photographs in this book. One of the most accomplished documentary photographers of the 20th century, she documented the first stage of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.