Owens Valley: The Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, Manzanar was Relocation Center Japanese-Americans (Ansel Adams)
1996
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 18.7 × 23.8 cm (7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.) mount: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of J. Patrick and Patricia A. Kennedy
Accession Number
2020.163.33
Art Historical Context
Mark Ruwedel's *Owens Valley: The Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, Manzanar was Relocation Center Japanese-Americans (Ansel Adams)* (1996) is a poignant gelatin silver print that captures the stark beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains rising dramatically from the Owens Valley. This intimate-scale photograph (image 7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.) invites viewers to stand at the historic site of Manzanar, one of ten U.S. internment camps where over 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II following the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Ruwedel, a contemporary photographer known for his met...
About the Artist
Mark Ruwedel
Mark Ruwedel, born on June 11, 1954, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, initially pursued painting, earning a BFA from Kutztown State College in 1978. He transitioned to photography during this time, later obtaining an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983. Working as a custom printer in Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1980 honed his technical skills before he relocated to Canada, where he taught a...