I've mentioned here that while working on the core exhibit at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center in northwest Wyoming a couple of years ago, I came across a cache of rare Kodachrome snapshots of life behind barbed wire taken by an internee named Bill Manbo. The photographs are the centerpiece of my new book "Colors of Confinement," coming out this August from the University of North Carolina Press in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
A highly, highly abridged version of my essay from the book appears on page 6 of today's Sunday Review in the New York Times, along with five of the photographs.
Online, the Times is running a slideshow of 15 of the photographs, with some additional text.
This is fantastic, Eric. Congratulations!
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | June 24, 2012 at 10:19 AM
I second the sentiment from Al. A wonderful endeavor.
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | June 24, 2012 at 08:14 PM
This is not a plug fora colleagues book, but the 15 photos in the NYT article cover only a small part of the collection of photos that are in the collection. Eric gave our faculty an extensive showing of the slides as part of a workshop series. They are very moving and it is most worthwhile to see the full set of pictures.
Posted by: Bill Turnier | June 25, 2012 at 02:08 PM