Portraits of Louisiana prisoners, with a political and historical look at American prisons, from the winners of the 2000 Lange-Taylor Prize. With the project “One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana,” photographer Deborah Luster and poet C. D. Wright set out to accomplish, in their words, “an authentic document of Louisiana's prison population through image and text—a document to ward off forgetting, an opportunity for the inmates to present themselves as they would be seen, bringing what they own or borrow or use: work tools, objects of their making, messages of their choosing, their bodies, themselves.”
The Tenth Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize:
Deborah Luster and C. D. Wright in Collaboration
Edited by Iris Tillman Hill
44 pages, duotones and poems
2000
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