Post by thinkinkmesa on Feb 14, 2008 13:32:41 GMT -5
FEBRUARY 14, 2008:
OHIO:
'Prognosis of Death' art exhibit in Ashland opens discussion on death penalty
Images of death row inmates are part of the exhibition "Prognosis of Death" that opens Feb. 21 in the Coburn Art Gallery at Ashland University.
The exhibit features work by Lou Jones, author of "Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row." Following an opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21, Jones will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Ronk Lecture Hall of the Schar College of Education building.
The exhibit and lecture are part of Ashland University's Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project, a campus-wide series of events for creating dialogue on the controversial issue of the death penalty.
Jones specializes in photo illustration and location photography for corporate, advertising and editorial clients such as IBM, Aetna, Nike, Major League Baseball, Federal Express, National Geographic, People magazine and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
His 1997 book "Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row" chronicled his 6-year odyssey documenting men and women on death rows in the United States. It was republished in 2002 and received the Ehrmann Award from the Massachusetts Citizens against the Death Penalty.
"This project started for me when I was 14 or 15 years old. I argued the issue of the death penalty with my father," Jones said. During the 6 years he worked on the book, Jones documented "the unseen, unheard stories of an American subculture."
"Every inmate caught in this predicament spends a considerable amount of time on death row before being resentenced or killed. This time almost inevitably leads to change. The people who are being killed are not the people who are sentenced."
Jones graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with degrees in physics but soon after embarked on a career that would have him taking pictures of headhunters in Borneo and guerrillas in Central America, flying upside-down with aerobatic pilots, skulking around opium dens in Singapore, sailing on ancient tall ships and gigantic aircraft carriers and being incarcerated in more foreign jails than can be remembered. He has also photographed 12 successive Olympic Games.
"It is my hope that the 'Prognosis of Death' art exhibition will open the dialogue for the death penalty in our society. These works of art are a powerful tool in that discussion," art instructor and exhibit curator Cynthia Petry said.
The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and noon to 7 p.m. Feb. 23 and March 1, which is the final day of the exhibit. It will also be open one hour prior to each performance of "Dead Man Walking."
(source: News Journal)
OHIO:
'Prognosis of Death' art exhibit in Ashland opens discussion on death penalty
Images of death row inmates are part of the exhibition "Prognosis of Death" that opens Feb. 21 in the Coburn Art Gallery at Ashland University.
The exhibit features work by Lou Jones, author of "Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row." Following an opening reception from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Feb. 21, Jones will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Ronk Lecture Hall of the Schar College of Education building.
The exhibit and lecture are part of Ashland University's Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project, a campus-wide series of events for creating dialogue on the controversial issue of the death penalty.
Jones specializes in photo illustration and location photography for corporate, advertising and editorial clients such as IBM, Aetna, Nike, Major League Baseball, Federal Express, National Geographic, People magazine and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
His 1997 book "Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row" chronicled his 6-year odyssey documenting men and women on death rows in the United States. It was republished in 2002 and received the Ehrmann Award from the Massachusetts Citizens against the Death Penalty.
"This project started for me when I was 14 or 15 years old. I argued the issue of the death penalty with my father," Jones said. During the 6 years he worked on the book, Jones documented "the unseen, unheard stories of an American subculture."
"Every inmate caught in this predicament spends a considerable amount of time on death row before being resentenced or killed. This time almost inevitably leads to change. The people who are being killed are not the people who are sentenced."
Jones graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with degrees in physics but soon after embarked on a career that would have him taking pictures of headhunters in Borneo and guerrillas in Central America, flying upside-down with aerobatic pilots, skulking around opium dens in Singapore, sailing on ancient tall ships and gigantic aircraft carriers and being incarcerated in more foreign jails than can be remembered. He has also photographed 12 successive Olympic Games.
"It is my hope that the 'Prognosis of Death' art exhibition will open the dialogue for the death penalty in our society. These works of art are a powerful tool in that discussion," art instructor and exhibit curator Cynthia Petry said.
The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and noon to 7 p.m. Feb. 23 and March 1, which is the final day of the exhibit. It will also be open one hour prior to each performance of "Dead Man Walking."
(source: News Journal)