Spencer Lowell La American Prison Analysis

“I have albums placed like Tetris pieces in my locker next to a small stack of fabric cubes that once opened reveal sweat shirts. I have learned to fold to unprecedented sizes with precision that any military sergeant would be pleased by” (cite??). As once said by a California Institution for Women in Chino inmate, who is serving a eighteen year sentence. These lines stood out to me, because her words put me in the moment in the cell. Looking into her locker I fell like, I was observing the pictures, she was describing. This form of art is pure talent; she knew what words to choose to capture the attention of the audience. As I read how the albums were place, to the fabric cubes in the locker. It gave it the surreal feel that, I was the one

While Lowell’s is a Photojournalist, his image was the first that caught my eye, when I walked into the art exhibition in the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College. With a large 50 By 33.3 inch depiction of La Palma Prison in Arizona holds an abundance of color and I could not ignore the hue of sky, amongst the concrete and fencing of the prison that was in the middle of nowhere with a beautiful landscape as a backdrop. The segregation of inmates in the yellow jumpsuits to the right of the photograph and to the left there is some inmates interacting with one another playing basketball (Lowell La Palma Prison, Arizona). To me the meaning of this image as a whole, is beauty with in the scope of the systemic incarceration. Even though the background is a desert different tone of browns, the contrast of the white clouds and the blue sky give a peaceful outlook. Towards the front of the picture, the inmates can be seen enjoying there day for the most part, from studying this photograph for a few minutes. Cruz has two pieces, one of an inmate sitting on a bench in courthouse of Los Angeles in a blue jumpsuit, the second image Cruz’s imagine of the judge that is also sitting on the bench in the courthouse of Los Angeles in the traditional black judges robe with brown marble as his backdrop. (Cruz Untitled: from the Portraits of Purpose

So the significance can have a different meaning to the audience than to the artist. As in the article by Chris Rutter titled “Color Theory Fundamentals For Digital Photography”, Rutter