| Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray (VHS) |
 Produced by Karen L. Ishizuka. Directed by Robert A. Nakamura. Edited by Gail Yasunaga. Cinematography by John Esaki and Dean Hayasaka. Original score by: David Iwataki.
Elegant and penetrating, Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades Of Gray positions this immigrant photographer within the canon of American Art.
In Los Angeles, Toyo Miyatake is reknowned as Little Tokyo’s foremost studio photographer. To others he is known for having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America’s WWII concentration camps and being the first to capture life behind barbed wire with a makeshift camera made of scrapwood. Yet it was his little known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Miyatake’s pictorial and modernist photographs are presented for the first time since they were exhibited in the 1920s and 1930s.
Also included are never-before-seen images of Manzanar, the WWII camp Miyatake was incarcerated in, and recently-discovered home movies of Little Tokyo taken by Miyatake. 30 min. Color VHS.
Made with the support from the National Endowment for the Arts, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, and the UCLA Endowed Chair for Japanese American Studies
* Official Sundance Film Festival Selection 2002 *
Awards
Producers Award to Karen L. Ishizuka, Savannah Film & Video Festival, 2002
Best Documentary Short, Savannah Film & Video Festival, 2002
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short, Florida Film
Festival, 2002
Gold Award, Aurora Awards, 2002
Bronze Award, Arts & Culture, Worldfest Houston 2002
Telly Award, 2002
CINE Golden Eagle, 2001
Nominated for the International Documentary Association/
ABC News Videosource Award, 2001
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