





One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana Deborah Luster+C. D. Wright
Deborah Luster
This book is a collection of portraits of prisoners in three Louisiana prisons taken in 1998 by an American woman photographer, Deborah Luster.
Deborah, who lost her own mother to murder, dared to confront the prisoners she met in this project and allowed each of them to be photographed freely. The prisoners naturally brought their tools of work, their artwork, and their words to the camera, and began to express "who they wanted to be seen".
What these photographs project, apart from the social aspect of their "convict" status, is their forgotten human dignity, and the very personalities that still remain strong. The book transcends personal feelings and becomes a kind of silent "medium" that connects them to the viewer.
本書は1998 年、アメリカの女性写真家デボラ・ラスターによって撮影された、ルイジアナ州の三つの刑務所の囚人たちのポートレート写真集。
実の母親を殺人によって失ったデボラは、あえてこのプロジェクトで出会った囚人たちと向き合い、彼らがそれぞれ自由に写真に映ることを許容した。囚人たちは自ずと、自分の仕事道具、作品、そして言葉をカメラの前に持ち込みはじめ、「見られたい自分」を表現し始めた。
これらの写真が映し出すのは、彼らの「受刑者」という社会的な面を除いた、忘れ去られた彼らの人間的な尊厳、そして今なお強く残るパーソナリティそのものである。この本は個人的な感情を超え、ある種静かな「媒体」となって彼らと見る者を結びつける。
text:C. D. Wright
design:Jack Woody, Arlyn Eve Nathan
Limited Edition of 2000 copies
publisher:TWIN PALMS PUBLISHERS
year:2003
size:H323×W290mm
format:hardcover
language:English
attachment:dust jacket.
condition:slightly damaged on the end paper.
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