Prisoners of Age: The Alcatraz Exhibition

by Ron Levine and Michael Wou

Book Overview

More than 2 million people are now behind bars in the United States. Tougher laws and mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes will send even more people to prison. Many of them permanently. As... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970150407
• ISBN13: 9780970150400
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Ron Levine Photography
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Prisoners of age

This was without doubt the most thought provoking body of work I have ever had the pleasure of reading. The pictures are haunting in their eloquence. There images leave you with a sense of despair that at first overwhelms, but then touches you in pity for those poor wretches staring back from their miserable confines.

Prisoners of Age - Excellent Quality

I found the book Prisoners of Age to be a very powerful and revealing collection of portraits and photo essays. The images were on par with the photography of Richard Avedon and Mary Ellen Mark. This book forces you to slow down and think about our aging prison population not just as a number but as real people with hopes and dreams. This book does not attempt to pass judgment about the incarceration of the aged but lets the viewer draw his or her own conclusions. The overall quality of the book is outstanding with first rate printing and cutting edge design and layout that showcases the photography.

A visual odessy

Great read. i loved the the pictorials. Some of those convicts were real spooky.

Simply amazing

Staunch contrast: Amazingly beautiful artwork and photography of subjects whose past would make your eye-teeth curl! The book not only captures prisoners, but prisoners as human beings. It is not a political work of art but it does propel you to reflect on society's ill forgotten. It is a brief look into a world onto its own.