In this illustrated talk, Professor Eric Muller discusses rare Kodachrome photographs of imprisoned Japanese Americans taken by internee photographer Bill Manbo at Wyoming's Heart Mountain Relocation Center in 1943 and 1944. The color photographs jar settled understandings of Japanese American incarceration. Not only are the images beautiful, but they show imprisoned Japanese Americans engaging in both culturally Japanese and culturally American activities, thus expanding many viewers’ appreciation of the range of cultural practices that were common in the wartime camps. Their brilliant color also strips away the sense that these are “historical” photographs, making the pictured events look as though they could be happening today. While the images allow greater emotional connection with the pictured subjects than many black-and-white photographs do, they also interrogate and complicate viewers’ common assumptions about the nature of life behind barbed wire and about the nature of this tragic episode of injustice.