LOS ANGELES.- The Japanese American National Museum presents the exhibit Ansel Adams at Manzanar through February 18, 2007. Ansel Adams at Manzanar, organized by the Honolulu Academy of Arts, includes over 50 vintage prints from the collections of the Library of Congress, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Japanese American National Museum.

From 1943 to 1944, Ansel Adams made a number of trips to Manzanar concentration camp, located in California's Inyo County to the east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His photographs capture the stark lives of thousands of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II and remain among the most powerful photographic records of the camp experience as seen through the lens of an American master. Adams's photographs were exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and published in the 1945 book Born Free and Equal.

The exhibition is guest curated by Dr. Anne Hammond, photo historian and author of Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, who lives and teaches in Oxford, England.