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“. . . a comprehensive view of prison photography in the United States from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the present, which is informed by contemporary critical theory, sociology, historical perspective and a sensitive knowledge of photographic art. Hugunin’s multi-disciplinary approach, which is admirably unified by a subtle and nuanced analysis of the shifting boundaries between outsiders’ and insiders’ in the encounter between the photographer and the prison system, shows not only the complexities of prison photography as a genre, but the ways in which society more generally responds to the phenomenon of incarceration. Through precisely detailing the relation between photographers and subjects in a series of studies of the major bodies of work in prison photography, Hugunin reveals the strategies by which we understand and orient ourselves to those who have been set apart from and rejected by society.” Michael A. Weinstein
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