Pictures from a drawer [[electronic resource] ] : bprison and the art of portraiture / / Bruce Jackson

• Autore: Jackson Bruce <1936->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 779.936560975; 779/.936560975
• Soggetto topico: Prisoners - United States; Portrait photography - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 control
• Titolo autorizzato: Pictures from a drawer
• ISBN: 1-282-43734-8; 9786612437342; 1-59213-950-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456693403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II