Håkan Ludwigson - Unclaimed
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| Verlag | Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 94 |
| Format | 20,9 x 22,4 x 1,8 cm |
| Gewicht | 728 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Fotografie |
| ISBN-10 | 3775745467 |
| EAN | 9783775745468 |
| Bestell-Nr | 77574546A |
A commentary for the death-penalty debate | Enchanting aesthetics | With a table featuring the facts known about the deceased
A commentary for the death-penalty debate | Enchanting aesthetics | With a table featuring the facts known about the deceased
The Texas prison system registers 450 deaths a year. Families make no claim for 100 of them. They have been buried in the Joe Byrd Cemetery near Huntsville since the mid-nineteenth century. Inmates look after the cemetery as well as fabricate the gravestones. An "x" means that the prisoner was executed. A "999" indicates that he died while waiting on death row. The Swedish artists Lennart Grebelius and Håkan Ludwigson set up a final monument to these "unwanted." Ludwigson photographed the stone crosses in a rigorously aesthetic manner against an identical black background. An accompanying table lists who the deceased were: their name, their age, their profession, their crime, the duration of their imprisonment, and their mode of death. A macabre yet immensely powerful series.
