One Big Self OOP In the spring of 1959

In the spring of 1959

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

44 duotone plates

you will find many images that depict the game as we - the spectators

charged objects

One Big Self OOP In the spring of 1959Text 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