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Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites | 
 enlarge | Creators: Barbara Rose, Susanne Breidenbach, Lucinda Devlin
Publisher: Steidl
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1212462
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 80
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 10 x 0.6
ISBN: 388243872X
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783882438727
ASIN: 388243872X
Publication Date: August 2003
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Steidl Collectors Series During the early 90s, Lucinda Devlin systematically took photographs of gas chambers, injection rooms, electric chairs and death cells in rural towns and cities of the United States. She entitled the series Omega Suites--alluding to the final letter of the Greek alphabet as a metaphor for the end and for the unusually luxurious accommodations found there. Seemingly an examination of the death penalty, her austere, haunting images are actually metaphors that question the attitude to this issue found throughout America, where, although 70 percent of citizens support the death penalty, a few states are currently reconsidering their laws and imposing moratoriums or stays for the more that 3,000 Americans currently on death row, who will wait an average of 10 years before being executed. Icy and compelling, the photographs present a clearly defined and hermetically sealed concept of the world which is characterized by taking extreme measures against the ominous--instead of attempting integration. And they do so in a precise, exquisite and seductive way, while being intellectually repellent.
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Chiling and amazing June 13, 2001
This is a very unique book with pictures of execution facilities in the departments of corrections in urban USA. The serenity and artisticity of the pictures strongly collide with the raw reality of the function of the execution rooms. There is not a single person on any picture. Beautiful and chilling. By the way, though i am pro death penalty, i suggest that not even a dog should be executed in the Idaho State Penitentiary, Boise, Idaho. It lacks class
Chiling and amazing June 13, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very unique book with pictures of execution facilities in the departments of corrections in urban USA. The serenity and artisticity of the pictures strongly collide with the raw reality of the function of the execution rooms. There is not a single person on any picture. Beautiful and chilling. By the way, though i am pro death penalty, i suggest that not even a dog should be executed in the Idaho State Penitentiary, Boise, Idaho. It lacks class
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