found photos – portraits and physiognomy

In Boing Boing today – found photos from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937[Link]

Arkansas found photo

I liked the caption:

In 1975, documentary artist Bruce Jackson found a bunch of old prison photos in a drawer in the Arkansas penitentiary. The people being photographed have no interest in the photographs being made; the people making the photographs have no interest in the photographs they have made.

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