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Agenda Exhibitions to See

Backstory Man Ray • Rediscovering Man Ray’s Unconcerned Photographs

On Portraits Garry Winogrand • A 1964 scene offers a narrative of color

Dispatches Tehran • In a society with strict definitions of manhood, how are photographers portraying Iranian masculinity?

Curriculum • A List of Favorite Anythings

Prison Nation

Truth & Reconciliation

The Mug Shot A Brief History

Bruce Jackson On the Inside • When a folklorist set out to document life in American prisons, he found the enduring segregation of the Old South

Jack Lueders-Booth

Behind These Prison Walls • Jamel Shabazz and Lorenzo Steele, Jr., two photographers who worked as corrections officers, speak with Zarinah Shabazz about photographing life at New York’s Rikers Island

Lucas Foglia Rikers Garden

DEBORAH LUSTER ANGOLA PASSION PLAY

Marking Time

San Quentin Archive • Nigel Poor uncovers a trove of photographs from California’s infamous prison Rebecca Bengal

Solitary Resistance

Sable Elyse Smith

Prison Index • Can a website jump-start conversations about inequality, mass incarceration, and institutional violence?

Joseph Rodriguez

Zora J Murff Corrections

Emily Kinni

Stephen Tourlentes

Aperture Beat • Stories from the Aperture community— publications, exhibitions, and events

Object Lessons • Stereograph of Sing Sing Prison, ca. 1860s