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Ohio Penitentiary, Death Row
by Masumi Hayashi · American, 1945 - 2006
| Creation Date: | 1996 |
| Media & Support: | Collage of chromogenic color prints |
| Dimensions: | 39 x 60 inches |
| Credit: | Museum Purchase and partial gift of the artist |
Masumi Hayashi began photographing prisons in 1989, producing work that united her interests in archeology, confinement, and abandoned places. Assembling many separate views of a subject into large-scale photographs, she creates complex and often disorienting new spaces. This panorama combines fifty-five single images into a powerful evocation of the experiences of imprisonment. Hayashi’s was among the last of the artistic projects that focused on the now demolished Ohio Penitentiary.
