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Isamu Noguchi
b. 1904, Los Angeles, CA | d. 1988
Akari E, 1954
Mulberry bark paper, bamboo, iron, steel
Isamu Noguchi with Ikeda Masuo in the garden at the Vernon Blvd. warehouse in Long Island City, 1977
Pigment print
Courtesy Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Prior, in 1942, Noguchi voluntarily entered “internment” at the Poston War Relocation Center, a concentration camp in Arizona, joining Japanese citizens and American citizens of Japanese heritage living in the Western United States forcibly incarcerated during World War II, as authorized by Executive Order 9066.
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