{"id":684,"date":"2009-06-12T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/steve_davis_-_behind_bars\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T19:08:12","slug":"steve_davis_-_behind_bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/steve_davis_-_behind_bars.html","title":{"rendered":"Steve Davis &#8211; behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous on the topic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/buddy-bunting.html\">Buddy Bunting and Mike Simi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Bunting and Simi, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/Steve%20Davis\/davis.htm\">Steve Davis<\/a> is not on the outside looking in. He&#8217;s behind bars with his teenage subjects, serving as teacher, friend and chronicler of their experience.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, even Davis can&#8217;t get all the way in, and an institutionally-enforced failure to communicate is the subject.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> Chan Chao &#8211; portraits of women in a Peruvian prison, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chanchao.net\/portfolio\/sm\/images_sm.html\">here<\/a>. They&#8217;re not nearly as good, but they&#8217;re getting all the bounce. Reason? There&#8217;s work to do, so that the Northwest&#8217;s marginalized geography is not a marginalized destiny for its artists.<\/p>\n<p>Below, Davis&#8217; <i>Intensive Management Unit, Green Hill, 2000<\/i> . Click to enlarge. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/stevedavisbox-7803.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/stevedavisbox-7803.html','popup','width=600,height=473,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/06\/stevedavisbox-thumb-450x354-7803.jpg\" alt=\"stevedavisbox.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/span><font size=\"1\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><em><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous on the topic: Buddy Bunting and Mike Simi. Unlike Bunting and Simi, Steve Davis is not on the outside looking in. He&#8217;s behind bars with his teenage subjects, serving as teacher, friend and chronicler of their experience. Sometimes, even Davis can&#8217;t get all the way in, and an institutionally-enforced failure to communicate is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}