Week 4 Questions (Jordan Renville)

How can we learn from imagery from events like the Japanese internment camps to make sure that things like this don't happen again? Sturken points directly to the photography and artwork from inside the camps, which offer us a raw view of what life is like. Do these images help in the effort to make sure that these things never happen again, or do they only serve as art for the time and are forgotten shortly after?

Were the photographers who photographed the true nature of the camps doing anything wrong? Did they have an obligation to the government as part of their job to make the camps look like a safe and welcoming environment, or did they do the right thing by telling the world about the closed-off and less-than-ideal living conditions?