A survey of the representation of prisoners in the United States : discipline and photographs--the prison experience / James R. Hugunin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hugunin, James.

Contributor:

• Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

• Studies in the photographic arts ; v. 3.
• Studies in the photographic arts ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Prisoners--United States--Portraits.
• Prisoners--United States--History.
• Portrait photography--United States--History.
• Prisons--United States--History.
• Prisons.
• History.
• Portrait photography.
• Prisoners.
• Portraits.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 502 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [1999]

Contents:

• Introduction: Punishment, The Terrible Solvent 1
• Chapter 1 Architecture Parlante and Homo Criminalis 63
• Chapter 2 An Era of Reform 113
• Chapter 3 The Crime of Punishment 133
• Chapter 4 McCune the Exceptional 183
• Chapter 5 Considered Photographs 211
• Chapter 6 Killing Time 261
• Chapter 7 Video Carceri 321
• Chapter 8 Doing Time/Doing Death 371
• Conclusion: Empowering Narratives 417.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-484) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0773481524

OCLC:

40481191

Online:

The Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund Home Page