Stephen Tourlentes
-Los Angeles-Boston(2)
Book:
Blind Spot Issue eighteen
Bio:
Inspired
by the sight of a newly constructed prison glowing in a nighttime
prairie landscape, Stephen Tourlentes began his series of photographs of
penitentiaries around the United States in 1996. Tourlentes found the
glaring surveillance light of the prison beautiful from a distance yet
deterring at close range, forming, as he describes it, "a physical and
psychological border that affects those inside and out." Using an
8-by-10-inch view camera and working at night, Tourlentes creates
luminescent photographs requiring exposure times ranging from five
minutes to two hours.
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