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Richard Ross: Architecture of Authority | 
 enlarge | Author: John Macarthur
Creator: Richard Ross
Publisher: Aperture
Category: Book
List Price: $40.00
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Sales Rank: 294084
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 9.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1597110523
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.4092
EAN: 9781597110525
ASIN: 1597110523
Publication Date: September 1, 2007
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Product Description
For the past several years--and with seemingly limitless access--photographer Richard Ross has been making unsettling and thought-provoking pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them. From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques and diverse civic spaces including a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall and the United Nations, the images in Architecture of Authority build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation room at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber.Though visually cool, this work deals with hot-button issues--from the surveillance that increasingly intrudes on post-9/11 life to the abuse of power and the erosion of individual liberty. The connections among the various architectures are striking, as Ross points out: "The Santa Barbara Mission confessional and the LAPD robbery homicide interrogation rooms are the same intimate proportions. Both are made to solicit a confession in exchange for some form of redemption." Essay by Harper's Magazine publisher, John R. MacArthur, also a columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail.
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