Retratos de presos realizados por Deborah Luster. Tras el asesinato de su madre en 1998 esta artista tomó inesperadamente la determinación de tratar de comprender cómo la gente llega a cometer hechos como ese. Animada por ese impulso estuvo retratando a prisioneros de centros penitenciarios de Louisiana (EE.UU.) entre 1998 y 2003, reuniendo miles de negativos que sirvieron para las placas de aluminio que forman el trabajo que tituló y han sido editadas en libro como 'One Big Self', acompañadas las imágenes en su publicación de poemas de la escritora C.D. Wright. Además me llamó la atención de este excelente trabajo que hasta entonces la artista no se había interesado por la fotografía y ese fue su punto de partida.
Tintypes by Deborah Luster. After the murder of her mother in 1998 this artist took the unthinkable determination to try to understand how people come to those terms and started taking portraits of inmates in prisons of the State of Louisiana between 1998 and 2003, a collection of thousands of negatives that gave form to the work she titled and also has been published in a book as 'One Big Self', the book also containing poems by writer C.D. Wright. Really called my attention of this excellent work the artist was never interested in photography until then so it was her starting point in the medium.
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CDS Exhibits
Jack Shainman Gallery
lens culture
Printing on aluminium plates
One Big Self Project
Origins of One Big Self
Accidental Performance Work
YouTube: One Big Self
L I T T O R A L
Poems by C.D. Wright
[vía Prison Photography]
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▶Joe Henderson·'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem'
"Lo que vemos no está hecho de lo que miramos sino más bien de cómo somos", Fernando Pessoa. "What we see is not made up of what we are seeing but rather from what we are."
Tintypes by Deborah Luster. After the murder of her mother in 1998 this artist took the unthinkable determination to try to understand how people come to those terms and started taking portraits of inmates in prisons of the State of Louisiana between 1998 and 2003, a collection of thousands of negatives that gave form to the work she titled and also has been published in a book as 'One Big Self', the book also containing poems by writer C.D. Wright. Really called my attention of this excellent work the artist was never interested in photography until then so it was her starting point in the medium.
EnlacesLinks
CDS Exhibits
Jack Shainman Gallery
lens culture
Printing on aluminium plates
One Big Self Project
Origins of One Big Self
Accidental Performance Work
YouTube: One Big Self
L I T T O R A L
Poems by C.D. Wright
[vía Prison Photography]
EscuchaListen
▶Joe Henderson·'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem'
"Lo que vemos no está hecho de lo que miramos sino más bien de cómo somos", Fernando Pessoa. "What we see is not made up of what we are seeing but rather from what we are."
