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Anchor Editions
Company blog · anchoreditions.com/blogdesignhistory
Anchor Editions is the company blog at anchoreditions.com, writing about design and history. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited in one comment for its post on Dorothea Lange's photographs being censored during the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. The blog's posts cover historical photography.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Limited editions of interesting art, printed to exacting standards. Festina lente — Hasten slowly.
Most-linked posts?
- Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-12-09
What Hacker News says?
Dorethea Lange was working for the FSA and made work as Americans were rounded up for the crime of Japanese heritage. https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-phot... Her work was censored as part of the changed propaganda agenda from the we-are-all-citizens of Migrant Mother to ends-justify racism.
Comment linking /blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs
on “Rare real colour photos of WWII”Submitted Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps as a story · 450 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photos of Japanese American Internment Camps (2017) as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps as a story · 31 points
HN discussion