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Grace before dying / Lori Waselchuk ; essay by Lawrence N. Powell.

Title
Grace before dying / Lori Waselchuk ; essay by Lawrence N. Powell.
Author
Waselchuk, Lori
Publication
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Umbrage Editions, c2010.

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Powell, Lawrence N.
Description
120 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.); 22 x 29 cm.
Summary
"'Grace Before Dying' tells the emotional story of the extraordinary breakthrough in humanity that has help transform Angola, once one of the most dangerous maximum security prisons in the United States, to one of the least violent. Poignant quotes from the incarcerated hospice volunteers and patients accompany the searing photographs set in a carefully built sequence that charts the development of the program. Award-winning photographer Lori Waselchuk not only shows a culture of caring and compassion that challenges stereotypes of incarcerated people, but also provides an intimate and personal perspective on what long-term and life sentences signify for those inside"--Cover page 4.
Subject
  • Louisiana State Penitentiary > Pictorial works
  • Prisoners > Hospice care > Louisiana > Angola > Pictorial works
  • Louisiana
Genre/Form
  • Pictorial Work
  • illustrated books.
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781884167225
  • 1884167225
OCLC
  • 669755082
  • SCSB-10545769
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library