Captions – Page 5 – Erik M. Bachman

Civilian Exclusion Order No. 27

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Any person subject to this order who fails to comply with any of its provisions or with the provisions of published instructions pertaining hereto or who is found in the above area after 12 o’clock noon, P.W.T., or Thursday, May 7, 1942, will be liable to the criminal penalties provided by Public Law No. 503, 77^th Congress, approved March 21, 1942, entitled “An Act to Provide a Penalty for Violation of Restrictions or Orders with Respect to Persons Entering, Remaining in, Leaving, or Committing any [sic] Act in Military Areas or Zones,” and alien Japanese will be subject to immediate apprehension and internment.

Slaughter-Bench

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There can be no evidence, photographic or otherwise, of an event until the event itself has been named and characterized. And it is never photographic evidence which can construct—more properly, identify—events; the contribution of photography always follows the naming of the event. What determines the possibility of being affected morally by photographs is the existence of a relevant political consciousness. Without a politics, photographs of the slaughter-bench of history will most likely be experienced as, simply, unreal or as a demoralizing emotional blow. (Susan Sontag, On Photography)