In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison
by John Szarkowski and Thomas Roma
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1576872572
- ISBN 13
- 9781576872574
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NY: powerHouse, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 96 pages. In 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi’s Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth-century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburg’s inception in 1896—on the occasion of which one Philadelphia reporter warned, “Abandon all hope all ye who enter here”—it quickly became the prison for Philadelphia’s worst criminals, eventually packing up to five prisoners into six by eight foot cells designed for single-occupancy. After leaving the site, Roma found his mind often inhabiting the space of the prison with its halls of flaking paint and graffiti-covered cells. Overwhelmed by the evidence of the lives spent inside those small rooms, Roma returned to photograph on his own, creating the images now collected for In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison. Record # 361818
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- Title
- In Prison Air: The Cells of Holmesburg Prison
- Author
- John Szarkowski and Thomas Roma
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1576872572
- ISBN 13
- 9781576872574
- Publisher
- powerHouse
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Photography, Documentary, , .
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