Architecture of Authority
PUBLISHER
APERTURE FOUNDATION ©2007
ISBN-10 1597110523
ISBN-13 9781597110525
The past several years photographer Richard Ross has been making unsettling & thought-provoking pictures of architectural space that exact power over the individuals within them. From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques and diverse civic spaces including a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall and the United Nations, the images build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation rom at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber. Illustrated with color photographs throughout. 144p.
The past several years photographer Richard Ross has been making unsettling & thought-provoking pictures of architectural space that exact power over the individuals within them. From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques and diverse civic spaces including a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall and the United Nations, the images build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation rom at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber. Illustrated with color photographs throughout. 144p.
Ross homepage here
1 comment:
GREAT stuff! I love Ross. Definitely the feeling I'd like to go for
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