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Web Sites

Hansel Mieth Archives / Center for Creative Photography
An archive of Hansel Mieth’s photographs and written materials are housed at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Visit the site to learn more about the collection.

Interview with Hansel Mieth Hagel
Oral history transcript is the result of a 1964 interview with Hansel Mieth Hagel at her home. Conducted by Mary McChesney for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

The “Life” of Hansel Mieth
Mills College student’s art history paper recaps Mieth’s life.

LIFE Magazine
Official Web site for the weekly published from 1936 to 1972. Site features cover photos by Hansel Mieth: “Garment Workers at Play” (1938) and “Dionne's Communion” (1940) as well as lots of famous contemporary images.

CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION
In-depth PBS companion site delves into the heart of the Japanese American experience in interment camps and examines two different responses to the injustice: compliance and resistance.

The Heart Mountain Digital Preservation Project
Project’s site archives Heart Mountain photos and materials “so that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal and internment of civilians and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry will be remembered…”

Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation
Established to memorialize and to educate the public about the significance of the historical events surrounding the internment of Japanese Americans at the Heart Mountain Camp.

Women In Photography International
Non-profit outreach organization promotes the visibility of women photographers and their work through a variety of programs, exhibitions, juried competitions and publications.

Books

Codrescu, Andrei, ed. Reframing America: Alexander Alland, Otto Hagel & Hansel Mieth, John Gutmann, Lisette Model, Marion Palfi, Robert Frank. (second of three exhibition catalogs for the traveling exhibition, Points of Entry). Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, 1995.

Light, Ken. ed. Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Loengard, John. Life Photographers: What They Saw. New York: Bulfinch Press, 1998.

Rosenblum, Naomi. A History Of Women Photographers. New York: Abbeville Press, 2000.

Inouye, Mamoru and Grace Schwab. The Heart Mountain Story: Photographs by Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans. Los Gatos: Self-published: 1988.

Educator’s Guide

Reframing America, Through the Eyes of Seven Immigrant Photographers

Articles

Bacon, David. “Culture: Documenting the Movements for Social Justice,” (review of the “Reframing America” exhibit)

C.B. “In Memoriam: Hansel Mieth,” American Photo, Vol. 9 Issue 4, Jul/Aug 1998.

Conner, Ken. “Hansel Mieth -- Admired Photojournalist,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1998.

Holt, Patricia. “Pictures of Dignity: at an Internee Camp Japanese Americans Still Saluted Flag,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1998.

Inoue, Todd S., “Barbed Memories: A Stash of Previously Unseen Photos Documenting the Heart Mountain Internment Camp Gets a Second Life,” Metroactive Online

Kaplan, Tracey. “U.S. Internment Camp Photos on Display; Life Never Printed Pictures,” Times-Picayune, October 5, 1997.

Loengard, John. “Otto Hagel,” American Photo, Vol. 13 Issue 2, March/April 2002.

McCabe, Michael. “A Life in Pictures: Hansel Mieth and her Husband Otto Hagel Documented the Lives of the Downtrodden,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 1994.