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Nigel Poor: The San Quentin Project
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See moreThe San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating how this archive of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy and process the experience of incarceration.
The San Quentin Project collects a largely unseen visual record of daily life inside one of America's oldest and largest prisons, demonstrating the experience of incarceration and how this penal institution of the state is now being used to teach visual literacy.
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Unique blend of art, education, and activism from an acclaimed cocreator of the Ear Hustle podcast.
Insightful essay contributions from writers Rachel Kushner and Reginald Dwayne Betts.
Additional Comp Titles
Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons, by Bruce Jackson. ISBN: 9780292744967, $50.00 USD (University of Texas Press, 2013)
In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America, by Bruce Jackson. ISBN: 9780807835395, $36.00 USD (University of North Carolina Press, 2012)
Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture, by Bruce Jackson. ISBN: 9781592139491, $39.95 USD (Temple University Press, 2009)
The San Quentin Project also featured in:
Truth in Photography, 2021
Financial Times, 2021 (Print)
Elephant Magazine, May 3, 2021
It's Nice That, May 14, 2021
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“The book…challenges perceptions, in this case, of those in prison and of why but more importantly how we imprison them.” — It’s Nice That
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ISBN: 9781597114929
Publisher: Aperture
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 27 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Aperture
Illustration: 97 Illustrations
Contributors:
- Contributions by Rachel Kushner
- Contributions by Michael Nelson
- Contributions by Ruben Ramirez
- Contributions by Lisa Sutcliffe
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 220.0mm
Height: 280.0mm
Weight: 1000g
Pages: 168
About the Author
Nigel Poor (born in Boston, 1963) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based visual artist and professor of photography at California State University, Sacramento. In 2017, Poor cocreated the podcast Ear Hustle with Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, who were both incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison at the time. Her work has been featured in Aperture magazine's Spring 2018 issue, "Prison Nation," and in the New York Times. Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet, memoirist, and teacher. Formerly incarcerated, he is now a lawyer and author of several award-winning books, including Felon: Poems (2019) and A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2010). Betts is currently pursuing a PhD in law at Yale University. Mesro Coles-El is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison and has worked with Nigel Poor on the San Quentin Archive Project. Rachel Kushner is an American writer, known for her novels Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), and The Mars Room (2018). She lives in Los Angeles. Michael Nelson served over twenty years in California prisons for a crime he committed at the age of fifteen. In 2018, at the age of thirty-six, he earned his parole. He cofounded and serves as executive director for the youth offender program Kid CAT (Creating Awareness Together). He also cocreated the Acting with Compassion and Truth (ACT) program. Nelson lives in central California. Ruben Ramirez was born in Pecos, Texas, in 1957. When he was forty-eight, he received a fifteen-to-life prison sentence. During his incarceration, he began, as he says, "a journey of higher learning and enlightenment" and worked with Nigel Poor on the San Quentin Archive Project. Lisa Sutcliffe is the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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