Final exposure : portraits from death row / photographed and written by Lou Jones ; interviews by Lou Jones and Lorie Savel ; edited, with an introduction by Michael Radelet ; foreword by Gerry Spence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Lou, 1945-

Contributor:

Borges, Lorie Savel.

Radelet, Michael L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death row inmates--United States--Case studies.

Death row inmates.

Death row inmates--United States--Pictorial works.

United States.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

xx, 122 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1996.

Summary:

I first saw the brave and beautiful photographs in this remarkable collection at my ranch near Dubois, Wyoming, one night when Lou Jones made a slide presentation to the young trail warriors at the Trial Lawyer's College. A silent pall fell over the small group. Few had ever looked in the face of a human being who was destined to be killed, purposely, with premeditation, on an hour and day certain. Now we looked at the faces, and what we saw from Jones's penetrating camera were not names or numbers, not writs of habeas corpus or titles on legal documents, but people: people who were resigned to their fate, or who felt sorrow and shame; who were confused and knew not what was happening to them, or who knew full well their fate and had long ago abandoned hope. We were shown people who had been touched by the camera, and who, in turn, touched us through the photographs. -From the foreword by Gerry Spence.

ISBN:

1555532772

OCLC:

34906156