Still Life Killing Time - Couverture rigide

Clark, Edmund

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1904587534 ISBN 13 : 9781904587538

Editeur : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

For two years Edmund Clark photographed inside Britain's only prison wing for old lifers. These powerful and poignant images fuse documentary photography with still life symbolism to explore the world 'inside'.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Taken over the course of more than a year of exclusive access, this work applies large format still life photography to the context of a unique prison community, E Wing at Kingston Prison in Portsmouth. For eight years this was Britain s only wing dedicated to holding elderly lifers: murderers, rapists, paedophiles and other violent criminals aged from their late 50s to over 80 years old. Still Life: Killing Time, is not simply a reportage about a particular prison. Elements of metaphor, abstraction and documentary explore the experience of long term incarceration and the passage of time, and touch on how ageing and physical decline affect the prison environment. The claustrophobia of these close up, deliberate and regular compositions reflects both the nature of the place and the experience of working in E Wing. The recurring motifs bars, squares, boxes, grids show the segmentation and ordering of time and space that is fundamental to prison life, while the details of the inmates possessions, notice-boards, walls, tables and bedsides suggest their state of mind and how they adapt to long term incarceration and getting old in an institution. Edmund Clark has built a reputation for combining strong ideas with an ability to work in sensitive situations and with people on the margins of society. His work combines still life, portrait and landscape to explore the relationship between environment, memory and the passage of time. His most recent exhibition was Faces and Memories of Centenarians at the Spitz Gallery, London, and at Bloomingdale s, New York. A previous winner of a coveted Gold Pencil at the New York One Show Advertising Awards, Clark s work is also in major collections including the National Portrait Gallery.

Revue de presse

'In Edmund Clark I find one of our best photographers but, more importantly, one of our finest humanists.' --Simon Norfolk, Photographer

'Terse, telling images, unpopulated pictures of a dehumanized world.' --Simon Armitage, Poet and Novelist

'As harsher sentencing policies force many people to face the prospect of growing old in prison Edmund Clark s photographs give a unique insight into what it means to measure out your time in a bleak institution. Clear, painterly images show us, in ways that words cannot, the detail of men's lives behind bars. This extraordinary body of work manages to get close without being intrusive, to be compassionatewithout becoming emotional.' --Juliet Lyon, Director, Prison Reform Trust

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dewi Lewis Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904587534
• ISBN 13: 9781904587538
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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