ENDURING JUSTICE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS ROMA

New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2001. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2001. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 180 pages. Landmark collection of photographs. One of Thomas Roma's finest achievements. Limited Slipcased Edition of 80 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Thomas Roma and Marvin Hoshino: Oversize-volume format. Blue cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Roma. Foreword by the late great American novelist Norman Mailer, who famously fought for prisoners' rights throughout his activist life. Introduction by Robert Coles, one of the finest child psychiatrists of our time, the first psychiatrist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Original 8 X 10 inch photographic print encased in its own glassine sleeve and laid into the book. Matching slipcase with metallic-silver titles on one side. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Thomas Roma's "Enduring Justice". Perhaps the American photographer's single best collection: Austere and unforgettable photographs of very young men and women accused of committing crimes and awaiting trial. Some of them are shown with their loved ones and family members. All of the accused were awaiting trial at the Brooklyn Criminal Court, where Thomas Roma patiently waited for fourteen months, between December 1997 and February 1999, to take their pictures. Most of the subjects are not looking directly at the camera, are looking away or their heads are bowed, none of which is surprising because, whether one is guilty or not, to be accused is to be shamed (and even made to feel guilty). The individual "loses face", and these quietly beautiful photographs show us exactly what a person who has lost face looks like. Roma's project is ambiguous: None of his subjects has been convicted of any crime yet. It is therefore deeply disturbing that one feels they have already internalized their shame, and have to endure the inhumanity and "facelessness" of the criminal justice system. No one condones crime, but no one should condone injustice, either. An absolute "must-have" title for Thomas Roma collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the accompaying original 8 X 10 photographic print. The original print is very prominently and beautifully numbered, dated, and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer: "Thomas Roma (Limitation Number) 1998". This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Thomas Roma signed the print itself, NOT the book, thereby making the Limited Edition eminently collectible. A rare signed copy thus. 82 plates, 1 original pigment print. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 1576871029.