A Photographer’s Career in Prisons
American Suburb X republished an Art Voice interview with Bruce Jackson. Bruce Jackson is one of the greats of prison photography, up there with Danny Lyon, Deborah Luster and Alan Pogue. Jackson: “The...
View ArticleNew Photobook Gives New Life To Old Images and Research from Death Row
“Jackson and Christian have pulled back the proverbial curtain so that all can see the American Way of Death.” - Mumia Abu-Jamal In the 1979, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, a husband-and-wife...
View ArticlePete Seeger’s 1966 Documentary Film About Texas Prison Work Songs
REST IN PEACE, PETE Musician, folklorist and champion of the vernacular Pete Seeger died Monday. His legacy is formidable. The New York Times wrote: His agenda paralleled the concerns of the...
View ArticlePrison Plantations in the South, by Bruce Jackson
This week, The Marshall Project published an illuminating piece Prison Plantations about Bruce Jackson‘s work from inside Texas and Arkansas in the 60s and 70s. As far as I am aware, it is the best...
View Article“Prison Index” Essay Published In Aperture
How can images tell the story of mass incarceration when the imprisoned don’t have control over their own representation? This is the question Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood asks as editor of the latest...
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