David Taylor
La Palma Correctional Center, Eloy, Arizona

La Palma Correctional Center, Eloy, Arizona

© David Taylor

La Palma Correctional Center, Eloy, Arizona
La Palma Correctional Center, Eloy, Arizona
ArtistAmerican, born 1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • La Palma Correctional Center, Eloy, Arizona
Date2019–2020
Place depictedEloy, Arizona, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 33 5/16 × 50 in. (84.6 × 127 cm)
Sheet: 40 5/16 × 57 in. (102.4 × 144.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nena Marsh and gift of the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art
Object number2020.326
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAs fraught as the topics of migration, family separation, and
deportation have been in recent years, authorities have purposely prevented
honest evaluation and discussion by limiting access to detention facilities and
detainees. Knowing the power of photography, prison officials have barred the
press and even forbidden visiting lawmakers to use their cell phone cameras.
Although the airspace directly above and immediately surrounding prisons is
designated as a “no-fly zone,” David Taylor uses drones to navigate the
perimeter in publicly accessible, unrestricted airspace to make visible—even
from a distance— the foreboding immensity of the for-profit “prison industrial
complex.”

ProvenanceThe artist, Tucson, Arizona; [Rick Wester Fine Art, New York].
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and numbered in ink; title and date on a printed label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

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