Hammond's first lecture on Sunday was filled to capacity. The museum is sponsoring the free encore presentation to accommodate those who were unable to get seats for the event. Admission is free, but seating is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. The Doris Duke Theatre opens one-half hour before the presentation. 

Hammond will describe how celebrated American photographer Ansel Adams, best known for his landscape images, made over 200 photographs in 1943 and 1944 of the Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar Relocation Center, California, during World War II.  Adams exhibited them both at Manzanar and at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, and published a book, "Born Free and Equal" (1944), in an effort to help the reintegration of Japanese Americans into American communities.

Hammond is curating "Ansel Adams at Manzanar," on view at the Honolulu Academy of Arts through Oct. 29 in the Henry R. Luce Gallery. The photography exhibition features portraits of Japanese Americans who were interned in relocation centers by the American government during World War II. 

The exhibition features approximately 50 prints by Adams on loan form the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, and the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., as well as one print drawn from the Academy's own holdings.

Adams' presentation of the inhabitants of Manzanar had two main emphases: the full-face portrait and the portrayal of the camp as community.  While the photographs of Manzanar taken by documentary photographer Dorothea Lange are well known for their portrayal of the Japanese Americans as victims of an injustice, Adams offered them as survivors. His photographs of everyday activities were intended to reflect the traditional values of the American small town, to emphasize the internees' American citizenship, and to make it easier for his non-Japanese audience to relate to them as ordinary Americans.

The Manzanar Relocation Center, established by the Owens Valley Reception Center, was first run by the U. S. Army's Wartime Civilian Control Administration.  It later became the first relocation center to be operated by the War Relocation Authority.  The center was located in the former farm and orchard community of Manzanar.

On March 21, 1942, the first 82 Japanese Americans made the 220-mile trip by bus from Los Angeles.  By mid-April, up to 1,000 Japanese Americans were arriving at Manzanar a day and by July, Manzanar had a population of nearly 10,000. Over 90 percent of the evacuees were from the Los Angeles area; others came from Stockton, California, and Bainbridge Island, Washington. The residents worked in agriculture inside and outside the camp.  The camp also had a camouflage net factory, which was the only factory of its kind in any of the camps. Manzanar also had a golf course, chicken pens and a hog farm nearby.

Manzanar became a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is among the best preserved of the Japanese internment camps of the era. The last internee left Manzanar on November 25, 1945.  The facility was closed and all of its buildings, except for the camp auditorium, were torn down or sold and moved.