Nov 21 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2687 -

Sale 2687 - Lot 64

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CALIFORNIA.) Toyo Miyatake. Photograph of a banquet for the Japanese-American alumni of the Maryknoll program. Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, signed, dated and captioned in the negative "Second Maryknoll Alumni Banquet at Kawafuku Cafe"; minor wear, mount remnants on verso. Los Angeles, CA, 14 June 1936
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The Maryknoll School for Japanese-Americans Catholics was founded in Los Angeles in 1920. The photo was taken in the banquet room of the Kawafuku Cafe, which by many accounts later became the first restaurant in America to serve sushi.

This photograph was taken by the important Japanese-American photographer Toyo Miyatake (1895-1979), who was later incarcerated at the Manzanar internment camp, taking surreptitious photos with makeshift equipment before securing the right to serve as official camp photographer; he later published "Two Views of Manzanar" in collaboration with Ansel Adams.

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