[New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count

[jforjames at aol.com]

Sam, documentary photographers don't often pay people to shoot their images. A simple release form is enough
to clear publication. Nothing about the photographs (or poetry) strikes me as exploitive. Nothing I heard in Wright's 
presentation led me to think, as artistic?collaborators, they?were?doing anything more than throwing light (in both photographic and 
poetic sense) on a obscure, unseen part of the vast US penal system. 

I don't know the Judy Davis/Woody Allen?reference, I'm afraid, but a well-produced, large format?book of photographs is an 'art book'.
They're?costly, true.?But the term?'coffee table book' seems pointed?perjorative in a?Loganesque way.
Finnegan

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http://www.amazon.com/One-Big-Self-Prisoners-Louisiana/dp/1931885257/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214884493&sr=1-1

James, please read what I wrote.? This is the coffee-table book I was talking about (and I stand by what I said about its being suitable for the fictional Judy Davis's coffee table).? Did the persons depicted in these photographs and poems receive any compensation (to which they were surely entitled)?? I read somewhere that they did receive snapshot-size versions of their photos.? I call this exploitative.? 

Sam 

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