One Big Self OOP

One Big Self OOPText by C. D. Wright In 1998 photographer Deborah Luster and poet C. D. Wright set out to produce a record of Louisianas prison population through image and text. One Big Self is a document to ward off forgetting, an opportunity for those 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 photographer has been

In the spring of 1959

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many unpublished or rarely seen

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California on the same day in 1971 – represents some of the earliest black and white work by Anthony Hernandez

you will find many images that depict the game as we - the spectators

Twelve Acres is a reverie

Through a subtle hybridization of genres they raise the central question of autobiographical sincerity as the work’s theme and site

charged objects

“Women’s bodies hide as much as they reveal

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