Sarah Lewis

Sarah Lewis Instagram – We’re in an age of executive power. To understand it means remembering how art and culture have pushed back when injustices go unchecked. One powerful example is the history of Japanese American internment—a precedent and policy that has come up recently with the call to the Alien Enemies Act in Trump’s inauguration address. This long unseen image by Dorothea Lange—one of the many commissioned by the federal government but not released—captures the hidden history too often left out of textbooks. What would have happened if her images had been released when they were commissioned by the government? It’s a question that dogged Lange until the end of her life. Lange’s photographs captured more than the violation of the constitutional rights of Japanese Americans. She offered us a portrait of a nation that then refused to see it. That is the power of art and culture: to make us look again when we might look away.
#AlienEnemiesAct #Internment #WWII | Posted on 25/Feb/2025 19:29:40