‘CAPTURED’: Book Features “People In Prison Drawing People Who Should Be”

‘CAPTURED’: Book Features “People In Prison Drawing People Who Should Be”

At the outset of the process that led to the creation of CAPTURED, a new coffee table book from artists Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider featuring the art of inmates, the duo focused in on a hypocrisy that runs underneath the entirety of the American criminal justice system: power — especially political power — is reason enough for special treatment.

Take Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat, for example, who oversaw a company that engaged in currency manipulation on a global scale and lied about the condition of toxic mortgages to investors, a crucial puzzle piece in the Great Recession of 2007-2009. He is a free man today, though his company has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in fines.

Or Ellen Kullman, former DuPont CEO, whose products have poisoned scores of people around the world. In 2014, Forbes ranked her the 31st most powerful woman in the world.

Or Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobile who… well, where to start? Illegal extraction of oil, overcharging service station owners, covering up research that raised flags on global warming decades ago — Exxon’s done it all. But Rex was also national president of Boy Scouts of America from 2010 through 2012. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.

CAPTURED sums up the paradox of America’s justice system with a simple concept: inmates’ depictions of should-be-inmates.

Proceeds from the book’s sale will go towards Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid, according its website, but copies of the limited edition volume are moving fast. So we’ve received permission to reprint the following images. Let’s call them Portraits of The CEOs as Con Men:

 CEO of ConocoPhillips by Michael Coen, prison ID #T-16505 pencil and charcoal on paper

CEO of ConocoPhillips
by Michael Coen, prison ID #T-16505
pencil and charcoal on paper

 

 CEO of Walmart by Charles Lytle, prison ID #16684648 ballpoint pen and pencil on paper

CEO of Walmart
by Charles Lytle, prison ID #16684648
ballpoint pen and pencil on paper

 

Chairman of The Nestle Group by Charles Listo Vera, prison ID #Ai-6401 pencil on paper

Chairman of The Nestle Group
by Charles Listo Vera, prison ID #Ai-6401
pencil on paper

CEO of JP Morgan by Jose Fregoso, prison ID #AB-2966 pencil on paper

CEO of JP Morgan
by Jose Fregoso, prison ID #AB-2966
pencil on paper

 

CEO of General Motors by Leslie Robinson, prison ID #143219 pencil on paper

CEO of General Motors
by Leslie Robinson, prison ID #143219
pencil on paper

CEO & VP of Koch Industries by Joseph Acker, prison ID #15967538 soft oil pastels on 100lb paper

CEO & VP of Koch Industries
by Joseph Acker, prison ID #15967538
soft oil pastels on 100lb paper

 

For a full gallery of images, check CAPTURED‘s website.

 

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