[New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 7/1/2008 6:09:47 PM Central Daylight Time, 
jforjames at aol.com writes: 
> 
> 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

OK, Lusher gets royalties, Wright gets royalties, and the prisoners get a 
release form?  Cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_table_book

   
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