Stephen Tourlentes

Wilson features the works of photographer Stephen Tourlentes. Tourlentes's serial photographic study, Of Length and Measures: Prison and the American Landscape (1996-ongoing), documents how the expansive carceral system of mass incarceration in the US materializes within local environments of s...

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Published in:Aperture 2018-04 (230), p.128-135
Main Author: Wilson, Mabel O.
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Contemporary art
Exteriors
Guards
Imprisonment
Landscape art
Night sky
Photographers
Photography
Prisons
Rural communities
Rural environments
Tourlentes, Stephen
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Summary:Wilson features the works of photographer Stephen Tourlentes. Tourlentes's serial photographic study, Of Length and Measures: Prison and the American Landscape (1996-ongoing), documents how the expansive carceral system of mass incarceration in the US materializes within local environments of small towns, rural communities, and urban neighborhoods around the country. He strategically shoots the exteriors of prisons at night in order to capture the radiant glow of the high-intensity LED lights that render the facility grounds visible to the armed guards on night duty. The mechanistic 24-7 control of incarcerated bodies produces in its wake an illumination that lights up the night sky and slices across the rural horizon.
ISSN:0003-6420