- Title
- #1.12.03 - Zegwaard Hall, Saint Vivian Catholic Church, Independence, California (N36˚48.277, W118˚12.080’)
- Date Made
- 2005
- Medium
- Dye coupler print
- Dimensions
- Image: 11 × 22 in. (27.94 × 55.88 cm)
Primary support: 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2006.80.28
- Collecting Area
- Photography
- Curatorial Notes
Andrew Freeman spent more than five years researching, locating, and photographing the housing barracks that were recycled, relocated, and repurposed from the Manzanar Japanese American internment camp located in California’s Owens Valley for his series (Manzanar) Architecture Double. Manzanar was one of ten such internment camps built in remote areas of the western United States during World War II. At its peak, more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at the camp, and of those, more than 90 percent were American citizens. After the war, the buildings were removed for scrap or reuse elsewhere. In effect, this constituted an erasure of the historical record and, as a result, parts of this chapter of American history were scattered around the Owens Valley, absorbed by and integrated within its contemporary social and architectural context. Freeman’s project concentrates on the mapping and photographic recovery of these repurposed materials in structures such as Zegwaard Hall in Independence, California. By identifying these buildings, he allows us to own their contextual double role.
Eve Schillo
2021
- Copyright
- © Andrew Freeman
