Widelux View on Prison
The New York Times blog has an article about academic-turned-photographer, Bruce Jackson. In the 70’s, as a fellow at Harvard, Jackson traveled to the Arkansas Department of Corrections to follow Terrell Don Hutton, the commissioner set to reform the Arkansas institution. However, Jackson found that the photos he was taking to accompany his essay were becoming more compelling to him. Jackson used a Widelux camera, a swing-lens panoramic camera developed in Japan, giving his prison photos a wider and more abstract view.
