It’s exciting to see PerspehMag posts being reblogged or referenced. I’m reading Japanistic and they mentioned Tart’s excellent piece on Mine Okubo, Citizen 13660, who was a Japanese American internee.
What strikes me about the featured sketches is the defiance in the worn faces of the subjects. You see the suppressed anger, lost look of people in limbo. It is a stark contrast to the smiling faces in propaganda photos, and the polar opposite in some of Ansel Adam’s glamour-like portraits.