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Tools of disobedience

Title
Tools of disobedience / Mélanie Veuillet ; text, Didier Fassin ; translation, Tristan Gigon.
Author
Veuillet, Mélanie, 1989-
Publication
  • Zürich : Edition Patrick Frey, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Fassin, Didier
  • Edition Patrick Frey
Description
113 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
Tools of Disobedience' presents 185 photographs shot in 2014 at prisons in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. They show items which the inmates made secretly in their cells using the crudest of tools and materials, and which were subsequently confiscated. They are, for the most part, functional replicas of objects we use in our day-to-day lives outside the prison walls. They testify to the extraordinary skill and inventiveness required to make anything at all in these special, adverse conditions of privation and manifold constraints, with narrow confines, cheap materials, a lack of tools, constant surveillance and the need to conceal these creations. The available materials are altered, combined and repurposed, thereby losing their original function to become something new, endowed with new properties.
Series Statement
Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 229
Uniform Title
Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 229.
Subject
  • Veuillet, Mélanie, 1989-
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Prisoners > Collectibles > Switzerland > Pictorial works
  • Tools > Pictorial works
  • Tools in art
  • Found objects (Art)
Note
  • Chiefly reproductions of photographs of articles in penitentiary institutions for males in Switzerland.
  • "No. 229."
Contents
Des objets et des hommes = Of things and men / Didier Fassin.
Call Number
JQG 18-391
ISBN
  • 9783906803296
  • 3906803295
LCCN
9783906803296
OCLC
1015316175
Author
Veuillet, Mélanie, 1989- photographer.
Title
Tools of disobedience / Mélanie Veuillet ; text, Didier Fassin ; translation, Tristan Gigon.
Publisher
Zürich : Edition Patrick Frey, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 229
Edition Patrick Frey ; no. 229.
Added Author
Fassin, Didier. Des objets et des hommes.
Edition Patrick Frey.
Other Standard Identifier
9783906803296
Research Call Number
JQG 18-391
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