Renowned documentary photographer Bruce Jackson presents a profoundly moving, irreplaceable portrait of the southern prison farm and the men who lived and labored on these relics of the American slave plantation.
Renowned documentary photographer Bruce Jackson presents a profoundly moving, irreplaceable portrait of the southern prison farm and the men who lived and labored on these relics of the American slave plantation.
Bruce Jackson is SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and James Agee Professor of American Culture at the University at Buffalo. He is the author or editor of thirty books, including "In This Timeless Time": Living and Dying on Death Row in America (with Diane Christian); Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture; Cummins Wide: Photographs from the Arkansas Prison; The Story Is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories; Law and Disorder: Criminal Justice in America; Death Row (with Diane Christian); In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience; and Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons. His photographs and documentary films have been widely exhibited. Jackson has been named a Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit and also in the French Order of Arts and Letters.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On the Farm 2. Rodeo 3. In the Building Notes to the Photographs
