Booked: The Last 150 Years Told through Mug Shots

Giacomo Papi

ISBN 10: 1583227172 / ISBN 13: 9781583227176

Published by Seven Stories Press, 2006

About this Item

Light edge wear to the wraps with a slight curl to the front cover. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1596315017510

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Booked: The Last 150 Years Told through Mug Shots
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583227172
• ISBN 13: 9781583227176
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography
  • Political Thought and Current Affairs

About this title

Synopsis

Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, humorous, often bewildering collection sheds a whole new light on our rebellious century.
From political icons Martin Luther King Jr.and Angela Davis, to A-list celebrities Hugh Grant and 50 Cent, from killer Ted Kaczynski to the actor who aided in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, from prisoners of Auschwitz to a bearded Saddam Hussein, all of them declare a simple truth: The last 150 years told through police photography is truly an alternative history. Author Giacomo Papi’s brisk and insightful commentary enlightens us with intriguing backstories and little-known facts.
A feast for the eyes and the mind, Booked presents an ingenious and utterly unique snapshot of our times.

About the Author

GIACOMO PAPI is the author of Era una notte buia e tempestosa (It was a dark and stormy night), an anthology of the best opening lines in world literature, Papa, a best-selling humorous guide for expecting fathers, and several other books. Since 2000 he has worked as a journalist for Diario, an Italian weekly news magazine. Together with Massimo Coppola, he runs ISBN Edizioni, an imprint of the Italian book publisher Saggiatore.