“Colors of Confinement” Exhibit Opens in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 3

At midday on September 21, 1943, a crowd of about 4,000 people gather at the high school to send off 434 detainees departing for the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California after the government deemed them “disloyal.” Photograph by Bill Manbo.

An exhibit featuring photographs from the new book Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II opens on Wednesday, October 3, at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Colors of Confinement showcases sixty-five stunning images from a rare collection of color images taken by Bill Manbo, an internee at a Japanese American internment camp in the early 1940s. The book—headed into its second edition, with plans for a Japanese translation—has received wide acclaim since its publication in August 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press and CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. Stories have appeared in a number of print and online publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Picture Show, NPR’s photography blog.

Colors of Confinement exhibit
October 3 through December 14, 2012
William and Ida Friday Center
100 Friday Center Drive
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Directions

Colors of Confinement editor Eric Muller has been giving presentations and signing copies of the book at various local and national venues, including a recent event at the Center for Documentary Studies. Upcoming events include:

Wednesday, October 10, 2 p.m.
Ackland Art Museum
101 South Columbia Street
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Thursday, November 1, 12 p.m.
National Archives and Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, November 14, 6:30 p.m.
New York Public Library—Mid-Manhattan
455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street)
New York City

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