Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites

by Lucinda Devlin

During the early 1990s, Lucinda Devlin systematically took photographs of gas chambers, injection rooms, electric chairs, and death row cells in the rural United States. She entitled the resulting series The Omega Suites , alluding to the final letter of the Greek alphabet as a metaphor for the finality of execution. More than just a critique of the death penalty, Devlin's austere, haunting images extend that critique to an American society in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3882437596
• ISBN13: 9783882437591
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.1" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Chiling and amazing

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