Portret photography

Prisoners

€25.00
Extraordinary portraits of turn-of-the-century prisoners and related accounts of their crimes.
Seventy portraits reprinted from their original glass-plate negatives of turn-of-the-20th-century prisoners are accompanied by the salty, subjective contemporary newspaper stories describing the crimes of which they were accused and convicted. These powerful photographs capture the character and pathos of the men of the post-Gold Rush West charged with desperate crimes: the theft of a pair of shoes, of a can of oysters, of a dog named "Booze"; and as cold-blooded as murder.

Bibliographic Details

Author Arne Svenson
Publisher Blast Books
Place of publication New York
Year 1997
Edition First edition
Binding Softcover
ISBN 0922233187
Collation 160 pp.
Language English
Dimensions 23 x 25,5

Condition Report

Condition Very Good
Notes Bottom corner of back cover has fold (1 cm), else fine.
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