Author: Paccard, Bruno; Pignon-Ernest, Ernest.
Title: Dans Les Prisons de Lyon.
Description: France: Delpire Editeur, 2014. 2014. - Small quarto [approximately 9-3/4 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial black wrappers. There is some light rubbing to the wraps. Unpaginated. Profuse color reproductions of photographs by Bruno Paccard and artworks by Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Near fine.

The preface is by Michel Onfray.

Saint-Paul and Saint-Joseph were two prisons in Lyon, built in he 19th century and closed and put to another use in 2009. Before "collective amnesia" overtook the past of the prisons, artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest and photographer Bruno Paccard recorded through artworks and photographs the buildings and those incarcerated, tortured and executed within their walls.

The text is in French. Fine .

Keywords: SOCIOLOGY; PRISONS; LYON, FRANCE; SAINT-PAUL; SAINT-JOSEPH; NOTORIOUS PRISONS; BRUNO PACCARD, PHOTOGRAPHER; ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST, ARTIST; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHS; ART; ARTWORKS; MICHEL ONFRAY; DANS LES PRISON DE LYON.

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