Still life : killing time

著者

• Clark, Edmund
• Norfolk, Simon,

書誌事項

Still life : killing time

Edmund Clark ; [foreword by Simon Norfolk]

Dewi Lewis, 2007

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Taken over the course of more than a year of exclusive access, this work applies large format still life photography to the context of a unique prison community, E Wing at Kingston Prison in Portsmouth. For eight years this was Britain's only wing dedicated to holding elderly lifers: murderers, rapists, paedophiles and other violent criminals aged from their late 50s to over 80 years old. "Still Life: Killing Time", is not simply a reportage about a particular prison. Elements of metaphor, abstraction and documentary explore the experience of long term incarceration and the passage of time, and touch on how ageing and physical decline affect the prison environment. The claustrophobia of these close up, deliberate and regular compositions reflects both the nature of the place and the experience of working in E Wing.The recurring motifs - bars, squares, boxes, grids - show the segmentation and ordering of time and space that is fundamental to prison life, while the details of the inmates' possessions, notice-boards, walls, tables and bedsides suggest their state of mind and how they adapt to long term incarceration and getting old in an institution.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB16866129
• ISBN:
  • 9781904587538
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Stockport
• ページ数/冊数: [72] p.
• 大きさ: 32 cm
• 分類:
  • DC22 : 779.93654409422792
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Kingston Prison -- Pictorial works
  • LCSH : Male prisoners -- England -- Portsmouth -- Pictorial works