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Life in prison

Creator
Contributor
Issued
  • 1990/2000
Description
  • A gift in memory of Peter Ward Britton
  • Two curators who were creating an art exhibit inside the defunct Victorian era prison, the Eastern State Prison in Philadelphia, asked the artists to create a work for the show. This comic book retells three stories by people who have spent time in prison. Cover has a raised image of a prisoner on a black background. This cover is a departure from the comic style cover that these artists usually employ.
Description of Item
  • Life in Prison is a collection of true stories of prison life as told by convicts and ex-convicts and as illustrated by artists Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio. This book features the true stories of Sean Keating, Berris Simpson and Mark Sperandio
  • Life in Prison was produced as an artwork for Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject, an exhibition of site specific artworks at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
Mode of Issuance
  • monographs
  • Mass produced
Form of Work
Subject
Work Type
Technique
  • Adhesive binding
  • Commercial binding
Measurements
  • 26 cm
Identifier
  • Gren_Life_01
Item Locator
  • N7433.4.G746 L54 1995
Repository
Publisher
Place of Production
Institution
Conversion
  • Photographed with a Canon 30d with a 24-105 IS L lens in Raw file format. In Photoshop CS3, edited for color and contrast using layers and curves adjustments and saved out as a tiff file.
Modified
  • 08/08/2023
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