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On Exhibit at the Friday Center

With its expansive open spaces and sunlight-filled atrium, the Friday Center is a perfect environment for art and photography displays. We welcome inquiries from University departments and community organizations who would like to exhibit collections at the Center. Send your request to ConferenceCenter@unc.edu.

Colors of Confinement

In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. While there, Manbo documented both the bleakness and beauty of his surroundings, capturing community celebrations and his family's struggle to maintain a normal life under the harsh conditions of racial imprisonment.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, Young women chat at Bon Odori, a dance ritual performed during Obon, a summertime Buddhist festival commemorating one’s ancestors.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, [son] Billy Manbo clutches a barbed-wire fence.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, Sendoff of 434 prisoners departing for the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California, after the government deemed them "disloyal," September 21, 1943.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, [son] Billy Manbo with his maternal grandparents, Junzo (left) and Riyo Itaya.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, At dawn, a light burns in a single barrack room’s window.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, [son] Billy Manbo, in pilot attire, plays with a model airplane.

Colors of Confinement

Bill Manbo, [son] Billy Manbo walks westward along an avenue in the camp lined with piles of coal for the stoves in the barracks.

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These Kodachrome photographs are on display at the Friday Center until December 14, 2012. These photographs, along with essays from renowned scholars and a former Heart Mountain detainee, appear in the book Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II published by UNC Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. For more information about the exhibit, please contact the Friday Center at 919-962-3000, or ConferenceCenter@unc.edu.