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Pictures From A Drawer: Prison And The Art Of Portraiture Project Muse Upcc Books by Bruce Jackson, 1936- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 published together for the first time in this remarkable book. The 121 images that appear here were likely taken between 1915-1940. 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.'Here, freed from their prison'jackets'and printed at sizes far larger than their originals, these one-time ID photos have now become portraits. Jackson's restoration transforms what were small bureaucratic artifacts into moving images of real men and women. Pictures from a Drawer also contains an extraordinary description of everyday life at Cummins prison in the 1950s, written originally by hand and presented to Jackson in 1973 by its author, a longtime inmate.

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Author

Bruce Jackson, 1936-

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781592139491

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Photography, History, Arts