Hiromu Kira’s photograph “The Thinker,” a gelatin silver print, was taken around 1930. (photo courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum. © Sadamura Family Trust)

The Getty recently acquired 79 photographs by Japanese Americans from the collection of art historian Dennis Reed as well as 75 additional photographs from the families of Japanese-American artists who were forced to leave behind their cameras, negatives and photographs when the U.S. entered World War II and the military displaced and incarcerated Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

 In a podcast, Virginia Heckert, curator in the Getty’s Department of Photographs, discusses these works and the history of this artistic circle.

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