id: 323654 accession number: 2018.593 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.593 updated: 2025-02-09 07:48:27.874000 More than two hundred human skeletons were found on the outskirts of the prison grounds. The prison's warden, claiming a lack of funds, had begun to hire his own prisoners as guards, leading to an even more violent and lawless environment. The prisoners-cum-guards otherwise known as "trusties" would often extort other inmates and those who didn't pay up ran the risk of finding themselves in an unmarked grave, Cummins, Arkansas, 1968. Jean-Pierre Laffont (French, b. 1935). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.2 x 23.8 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.); paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2018.593 title: More than two hundred human skeletons were found on the outskirts of the prison grounds. The prison's warden, claiming a lack of funds, had begun to hire his own prisoners as guards, leading to an even more violent and lawless environment. The prisoners-cum-guards otherwise known as "trusties" would often extort other inmates and those who didn't pay up ran the risk of finding themselves in an unmarked grave, Cummins, Arkansas title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1968 creation date earliest: 1968 creation date latest: 1968 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - French 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean-Pierre Laffont (French, b. 1935) - artist --- measurements: Image: 16.2 x 23.8 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES