WOMEN PRISONER POLAROIDS Editions Bessard a book of 50 prints

a book of 50 prints to celebrate 200 years since the discovery of Antarctica

29 b/w illustrations

they are linked by a common view through which the supposed contrasts of city and countryside

I can see that it forced me to change as an artist and I am grateful for that

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WOMEN PRISONER POLAROIDS Editions Bessard a book of 50 printsIn the fall of 1977, Jack Lueders Booth began teaching photography to the inmates of MCI Framingham, a womens prison. During his decade at the facility, he would make a series of polaroid images produced collaboratively with the women who lived in the prison. 50 of these images are presented in this new book alongside oral histories taken at the time by Booth. Founded in 1878, MCI Framingham was opened to house incarcerated women for the crime of