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Inside the Architecture of Authority

By "Persian Cowboy"

Wired Magazine has published a collection of photographs by Richard Ross titled, "Inside the Architecture of Authority." The first picture is the death chamber at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.A new book by photographer Richard Ross, Architecture of Authority, examines the way institutional buildings exert power over people. Ross managed to gain impressive access to all kinds of secretive or high-security buildings, from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, to the supermax high-security Pelican Bay prison in California. Ross credits his unprecedented access to a combination of persistence and sincere curiosity. "Many of these people want to show you these places once they know that you're interested in their world," he says. To question the pervasiveness of intimidating, "disgusting" architecture, the images in Ross' book are both striking and inviting...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).