Paul Kitagaki's guest appearances

Paul Kitagaki

"Conversations LIVE!" with Cyrus Webb

The Best Of Our Knowledge

California Sun Podcast

Conversations with Charlie Dyer

Nancie Clare

Roy Choi

Alan Alda

Andrew Yang

Marc Lesser

Anne Lamott

Randy Shaw

James Loewen

Rick Doblin

Ken Jennings

Alice Waters

Roman Mars

Allen Gannett

Shane Snow

Leon Panetta

OwlTail

In the late 1970s, Paul Kitagaki, Jr., author of Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II, learned that the great documentary photographer Dorothea Lange had photographed his grandparents, father and aunt in 1942 as they awaited a bus in Oakland, to begin their journey into a Japanese detention camp. Several years later, while looking through over 900 of Lange’s photographs at the National Archives he found the original images of his family, and of many others.  He grew up in California and knew very little about the incarceration of Japanese people until his teens. Then he started asking his parents about their experiences, but they wouldn't talk. So, he decided to track down the subjects of many of the famous photos. 

In the late 1970s, Paul Kitagaki, Jr., author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Barbed-Wire-Searching-Incarcerated/dp/0991541812/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Behind+Barbed+Wire%3A+Searching+for+Japanese+Americans+Incarcerated+During+World+War+II&amp;qid=1618190322&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During World War II</a>, learned that the great documentary photographer Dorothea Lange had photographed his grandparents, father and aunt in 1942 as they awaited a bus in Oakland, to begin their journey into a Japanese detention camp. Several years later, while looking through over 900 of Lange’s photographs at the National Archives he found the original images of his family, and of many others.  He grew up in California and knew very little about the incarceration of Japanese people until his teens. Then he started asking his parents about their experiences, but they wouldn't talk. So, he decided to track down the subjects of many of the famous photos.

Conversations with Charlie Dyer, Guest: Paul Kitagaki, Jr.

Paul Kitagaki Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning Sacramento Bee photographer, tells the personal stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Inspired by a Dorothea Lange photograph of his parents' and grandparents' internment, he embarked on a 10-year pilgrimage, photographing survivors of the California camps and seeking to mirror pictures taken during World War II.

Paul Kitagaki Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning Sacramento Bee photographer, tells the personal stories of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Inspired by a Dorothea Lange photograph of his parents' and grandparents' internment, he embarked on a 10-year pilgrimage, photographing survivors of the California camps and seeking to mirror pictures taken during World War II.

Paul Kitagaki Jr. photographed the survivors of WWII internment camps

After the start of World War II, more than 110 thousand Japanese-Americans were rounded up and taken to desolate detention camps. For most of us this is a dark stain on American history. For Paul Kitagaki, it’s personal. For more than a decade he has been tracking down and photographing survivors of the camps and their families. Now, the project has all come together in the stunning new book “Behind Barbed Wire – Searching for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated during World War II”. The book is filled with photographs taken back in the 1940s and in the present day of families changed forever by this wartime policy. (more…)

After the start of World War II, more than 110 thousand Japanese-Americans were rounded up and taken to desolate detention camps. For most of us this is a dark stain on American history. For Paul Kitagaki, it’s personal. For more than a decade he has been tracking down and photographing survivors of the camps and their families. Now, the project has all come together in the stunning new book “Behind Barbed Wire – Searching for Japanese-Americans Incarcerated during World War II”. The book is <a href="https://www.kitagakiphoto.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">filled with photographs</a> taken back in the 1940s and in the present day of families changed forever by this wartime policy. <a href="https://wamcpodcasts.org/podcast/1526-paul-kitagakis-behind-barbed-wire/#more-6899" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(more…)</a>

#1526: Paul Kitagaki’s “Behind Barbed Wire”