One Big Self OOP 44 duotone plates

44 duotone plates

“Women’s bodies hide as much as they reveal

Twelve Acres is a reverie

Through a subtle hybridization of genres they raise the central question of autobiographical sincerity as the work’s theme and site

In the spring of 1959

One Big Self OOP 44 duotone platesText by C. D. Wright In 1998 photographer Deborah Luster and poet C. D. Wright set out to produce a record of Louisianas prison population through image and text. One Big Self is a document to ward off forgetting, an opportunity for those inmates to present themselves as they would be seen, bringing what they own or borrow or use: work tools, objects of their making, messages of their choosing, their bodies, themselves. The photographer has been