This exhibition highlights an artist’s photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles before World War II and of urban life in Hiroshima before the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
WAKAJI MATSUMOTO – AN ARTIST IN TWO WORLDS: LOS ANGELES AND HIROSHIMA, 1917–1944
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Legendary Bingo
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Descanse en Paz: Memorial Paintings from 19th-Century Mexico
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