Pictures from a drawer : prison and the art of portraiture /

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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 publis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jackson, Bruce, 1936-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Prisoners > United States > Portraits.
Portrait photography > United States > History > 20th century.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > Portraits.
Portraits (Photographie) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Subjects & Themes > General.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Individual Photographers > Artists' Books.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Photoessays & Documentaries.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
Portrait photography
Prisoners
Porträtfotografie
Gefangener
United States
USA
History
Portraits
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pictures from a drawer
  • Restoring the eyes
  • Size
  • Dating the images
  • The women
  • Portraits
  • Seeing people
  • The order of things
  • Mirrors
  • The portraits
  • Appendix: Cooter's yellow pad.

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