Faculty
Bruce Jackson
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture
Office: 610 Clemens
Phone number: 645-0714
E-mail address: bjackson@buffalo.edu
Personal website: brucejackson.us
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Interests:
Optics
Courses taught:
- Faulkner, Documentary, Fieldwork, Film, The Imagined West, Realities, The Great Depression and the Second Invention of America, Traditional Narrative, Epic
Work in progress:
an exhibit of Widelux Arkansas prison photographs for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; editing Buffalo Report; CDs of my unreleased tapes of blues musicians recorded in the 1960s
Selected publications:
- The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, 2007 (Temple University Press)
- Late Friends (Center Working Papers 2005)
- Disorderly Conduct (political and social essays, 1992, University of Illinois Press)
- Death Row (with Diane Christian, Beacon Press, 1980; French ed., Le Quartier de la mort, Editions Terre Humaine, Paris: Plon, 1985; 2nd French ed. with additional photographs 1986)
- Killing Time: Life in the Arkansas Penitentiary (photographs, Cornell University Press, 1977)
- Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons (Harvard University Press, 1972, 2nd paperback edition, with additional photographs and new introduction University of Georgia Press, 2000. LP 1974, CD 1996, Grammy nominee)
- In the Life: Versions of the Criminal Experience (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972: French editions with title Leurs Prisons, preface by Michel Foucault, Editions Terre Humaine, Paris: Plon, 1975 and with new signature of my photographs, 1978)
