Alyse Emdur - Prison Landscapes (2012)

Prison Landscapes explores this little-known and largely physically inaccessible genre of painting and portraiture seen only by inmates, visitors, and prison employees. Created specifically for escape and self-representation, the idealized paintings of tropical beaches, fantastical waterfalls, mountain vistas, and cityscapes invite sitters to perform fantasies of freedom. As inmates and their visitors pose for photos in front of these idealized landscapes they pretend, for a brief moment, that they are someplace else. The photographs are given to these visitors as gifts to take home and remember the faces of their loved ones while they are incarcerated.

Title: Prison Landscapes
Publisher: Four Corners Books
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Great
Dust Jacket Condition: N/A 
Edition: First Edition
Edition Run: 
Language: English 
Size: 24 x 17 cm
Pages: 176