Philippe BRAULT
Editeur : DEMOCRATIC BOOKS
Année de parution : 2010
Prison Valley est un road movie photographique dans une ville western, ou l’on surprend les personnages dans leur quotidien, dans leur travail, leur ennui, leur plaisir, comme des tableaux vivants d’une ville un peu morte. Les familles, les prisonniers, le personnel pénitentiaire, le shérif se livrent avec pudeur et dévoilent les dessous de cet univers ; préfiguration de l’évolution de notre propre société.Textes de David Dufresne
PRISON VALLEY
In this book photographer Philippe Brault and journalist David Dufresne take us into the heart of the prison industry of Cañon City – a city-prison that holds the world record for prisoners per capita. Prison Valley tells the story of how punishment has become a business, and how all the contradictions of American society have come to be displayed in the few square miles of this forgotten Colorado valley, “out of sight, out of mind”. As we travel from one prison to another, we discover a hidden underworld. Prison. The private sector. Profitability. Solitude. Manpower. Inmates. Poverty. Crime. Always and forever.
Prison Valley is a photographic road movie set in a wild west town, where we discover the characters in their everyday lives, their work, their boredom, their pleasure, like living statues in a half-dead city. Families, prisoners, prison staff, the sheriff, are all portrayed with tenderness, revealing the dark underbelly of their world; a message that foreshadows the evolution of our own society. "Text by David Dufresne
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