Andrew Freeman
#11.40.02 - Boy Scout building, Bishop, California (N37˚21.678’, W118˚23.929’)2005

Not on view

Color photograph of a small gray-sided building labeled 'BOY SCOUT BLDG' on a sun-lit street, with a Bekins moving truck, utility poles, and mountains under blue sky in the background

Artist or Maker: Andrew Freeman
United States, born 1962
Title: #11.40.02 - Boy Scout building, Bishop, California (N37˚21.678’, W118˚23.929’)
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)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Photographic Arts Council, 2006 and the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number: M.2006.80.25
Classification: Photographs
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 the Boy Scout building in Bishop, California. By identifying these buildings, he allows us to own their contextual double role.

Eve Schillo

2021
Copyright: © Andrew Freeman

Andrew Freeman
#11.40.02 - Boy Scout building, Bishop, California (N37˚21.678’, W118˚23.929’)2005

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Andrew Freeman
United States, born 1962
Title: #11.40.02 - Boy Scout building, Bishop, California (N37˚21.678’, W118˚23.929’)
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)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Photographic Arts Council, 2006 and the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number: M.2006.80.25
Classification: Photographs
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 the Boy Scout building in Bishop, California. By identifying these buildings, he allows us to own their contextual double role.

Eve Schillo

2021