In a Whole New Way is a photographic self-portrait by New Yorkers
who are serving a term of probation. The book also lifts the veil
on this “second-chance” justice intervention that has spread
from its origins in 1841 Boston to most of the world today. If all
Americans serving a term of probation were gathered in one locale,
they would constitute the third-largest city in the country. Yet
few of us understand what the sanction involves. Nor do many
Americans realize that the originally rehabilitative practice
became punitive following the 1972–92 crime wave. In many
jurisdictions, it still is. Probation unfortunately has become a
staging area for incarceration rather than its alternative. In a
Whole New Way shows how hundreds of determined city residents on
probation, along with neighborhood allies, undertook to change
this. Equipped with cameras and new artistic sensibilities provided
by the editors’ nonprofit Seeing for Ourselves, they set off in a
whole new way to reform the sanction of probation, returning it to
the rehabilitative and positive program it was originally intended
to be. In the process, they found themselves transformed. The
result of their journey is this unique collection of stunning
photographs, accentuated by deeply personal captions and lengthier
testimonies, that reveal the reality of life in probation. The
stories of these participants powerfully undercut their own—and
probation’s—derogatory popular image. The true goal of this
book is to reform the entire justice system toward decarceration.
In a Whole New Way is both the sequel to the editors’ Project
Lives (2015), the globally acclaimed volume resulting from a
similar effort with New Yorkers living in public housing—a work
catapulting Seeing for Ourselves to the front tier of
“participatory photography” practitioners worldwide—and the
source of today’s award-winning eponymous documentary film,
airing on select public television stations in 2023.
General
Imprint: |
Easton Studio Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Editors: |
George Carrano
• Jonathan Fisher
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Dimensions: |
233 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
176 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-63226-117-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-63226-117-0 |
Barcode: |
9781632261175 |
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