Exhibit: Photographs from "In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America"

Black-and-white photographs from "In This Timeless Time," a book by documentarians Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian published in 2012 by the Center for Documentary Studies and UNC Press. Jackson's photos were taken in 1979 during his and Christian's fieldwork for an earlier book and documentary film, "Death Row," illustrating life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections.As the authors write in their preface, "In This Timeless Time" is about "life on Death Row in Texas, the special prison within a prison the state maintains for men it plans to put to death. It is also about all the other Death Rows, which across time and in various places differ in marginal ways but which, at their core, are not significantly different from one another."THIS EXHIBIT IS ON VIEW AT UNC-CHAPEL HILL'S CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, WHICH ORGANIZED THE SHOW. 410 E. FRANKLIN ST., CHAPEL HILL.