Children, as well as adults, were photographed during the period of Japanese Internment. It is clear now that “[t]he U.S. military and government used photography as a way to legitimize the imprisonment of Japanese Americans” (Alinder, 2). This was especially easy to do with children because most of the pictures have them doing very typical things. It would not have been unusual to see a group of children playing outside or singing in a nursery school class. Producing normal looking pictures of children allowed viewers and publishers to ignore the real inhumanities of the camp. Children are not old enough to understand what was happening, so in candid pictures they were depicting a false normalcy. Therefore, it was easy to find a smiling 12-year-old, and legitimately claim that the photograph was not staged. Moreover, photographs of children are always more gripping to an audience because they capture an innocence and naivety that is lost in adulthood. This is why photographs of children during internment are so important; they preserve the most honest moments that were commuted to film. Candid pictures of children could be more honest and had a stronger impact than staged pictures of adults, and therefore are more important to the study of Japanese American internment.