USA, Phoenix, Arizona
James Nachtwey, American, born 1948
2004, printed 2022
Digital print on cotton paper
Image: 13 1/8 × 19 11/16 in. (33.3 × 50 cm)
Sheet: 14 5/8 × 21 1/4 in. (37.2 × 54 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund
2022.34.76
Geography
Place Imaged: Phoenix, Arizona, United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
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On view
Label
This photograph evokes the relationship between the United States and incarceration. A group of women, chained together at the ankles and wearing prison stripes, is being marched across the desert landscape under the eyes of two female correctional officers. In the foreground waves a tattered US flag. Incarceration rates for women had increased approximately 600 percent between 1980 and the year this photograph was taken, with Black women being disproportionately sentenced to prison time.
From the 2026 exhibition Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives, curated by Amelia Kahl (Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming) and Alisa Swindell (Associate Curator of Photography)
Exhibition History
Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives, Jaffe and Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 20, 2025 - July 11, 2026.
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