• Home
  • Contact
  • Proprietor
  • Archive
  • Tags
  • Reads
  • featured
  • RSS

benatlas.com

the curatorship of possibilities

mexico

Frank Scherschel – Mexico Prison in 1950

by Ben Atlas on 10.18.2009.10:00am · 0 comments

Prisoners who committed murder in prison confined to solitary cells

Prisoners who committed murder in prison confined to solitary cells

I have published number of photographs by the Life magazine photographer Frank Scherschel, his assignment in Djerba and his photographs in Israel in 1948 posts. On January 1st, 1950 Frank Scherschel took a number of photographs in the Mexico Prison. Perhaps this was a holiday and visiting day. There are sports events, visitors, lawyers and families inside the prison. This is my selections from the Mexico prison photos in the Life Archive. ►read more

You are awesome!
  • newly featured

    • The Life and Death in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
    • Brett Favre and the Effortless Vibe
    • The Bottleneck of Information is Time
    • The New American Caste System
    • Isaiah Berlin on Centrifugal and Centripetal Ideas
    • Monotheism and the Monarchical Authoritarian State
    • Untold Tales of the Hasidim by David Assaf
    • The Concentric Trash Talking Circles of Friends
    • Dr. Wilhelm Stekel on the Psychoanalysis of a Rabbi (Rashab?)
    • From King Solomon to Tsar Nicholas and Tsarevich Aleksei
  • most viewed

    • LIFE in Israel in 1948 - Part 1
    • The Life and Death in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
    • Chulent with Millennial Purple Prose at Millinery
    • It's Official: Chabad Stands for Nothing
    • LIFE in Israel in 1948 - Part 3
    • The American Middle Class
    • Drifting at the Sea of the Economic Depression
    • LIFE in Israel in 1948 - Part 2
    • LIFE of Djerba Jews in Tunisia - Part 1
    • LIFE in the Kutno Ghetto
    • rss

fueled with the runaway imagination, powered by wordpress

website credits

Copyright ©2010 Ben Atlas