Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture

Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture 
338 pages | Aug 31 2010 |ISBN: 1592139485| PDF | 3.5 Mb

For more than forty years Bruce Jackson has been documenting-in books, photographs, audio recording and film-inmates' lives in American prisons. In November 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, a state prison farm in Arkansas. They are published together for the first time in this remarkable book. The 121 images that appear here were taken between 1915 and 1940. As Jackson describes in an absorbing introduction, the function of these photos was not portraiture-their function was to "fold a person into the controlled space of a dossier

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