02393nam 2200529Ia 450 991078082570332120230721025056.01-282-43734-897866124373421-59213-950-7(CKB)2520000000009054(EBL)471702(SSID)ssj0000425285(PQKBManifestationID)11250149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425285(PQKBWorkID)10363982(PQKB)10402785(MiAaPQ)EBC471702(EXLCZ)99252000000000905420080530d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPictures from a drawer[electronic resource] bprison and the art of portraiture /Bruce JacksonPhiladelphia Temple University Press20091 online resource (205 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-948-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; 1. Pictures from a Drawer; 2. Restoring the Eyes; 3. Size; 4. Dating the Images; 5. The Women; 6. Portraits; 7. Seeing People; 8. The Order of Things; 9. Mirrors; The Portraits; Appendix: Cooter's Yellow Pad; AcknowledgmentsFor 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 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 controlPrisonersUnited StatesPortraitsPortrait photographyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPrisonersPortrait photographyHistory779.936560975779/.936560975Jackson Bruce1936-845762MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780825703321Pictures from a drawer3699493UNINA