Unclaimed / by Lennart Grebelius ; photographs by Håkan Ludwigson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ludwigson, Håkan, 1948- photographer.

Contributor:

Grebelius, Lennart, 1953- artist, writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ludwigson, Håkan, 1948-.

Ludwigson, Håkan.

Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery (Huntsville, Tex.)--Pictorial works.

Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery (Huntsville, Tex.).

Registers of births, etc--Texas--Huntsville--Pictorial works.

Registers of births, etc.

Cemeteries--Texas--Huntsville--Pictorial works.

Cemeteries.

Death row inmates.

Huntsville (Tex.)--Genealogy--Pictorial works.

Huntsville (Tex.).

Texas--Huntsville.

Grebelius, Lennart, 1953-.

Grebelius, Lennart.

Death row inmates--Texas--Huntsville.

Prisoners--Death.

Prisoners.

Burial in art.

Prisoners in art.

Photography, Artistic.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Family histories.

Physical Description:

113 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 x 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2019]

Summary:

The Texas prison system registers 450 deaths a year. Families make no claim for 100 of them. They have been buried in the Joe Byrd Cemetery near Huntsville since the mid-nineteenth century. Inmates look after the cemetery as well as fabricate the gravestones. An 'x' means that the prisoner was executed. A '999' indicates that he died while waiting on death row. The Swedish artists Lennart Grebelius and Håkan Ludwigson set up a final monument to these 'unwanted.' Ludwigson photographed the stone crosses in a rigorously aesthetic manner against an identical black background. An accompanying table lists who the deceased were: their name, their age, their profession, their crime, the duration of their imprisonment, and their mode of death. A macabre yet immensely powerful series.

Contains:

Grebelius, Lennart, 1953- Works. Selections.

Ludwigson, Håkan, 1948- Works. Selections.

ISBN:

3775745467

9783775745468

OCLC:

1080545995