Announcing the publication of HIDDEN ALCATRAZ, THE FORTRESS REVEALED by the University of California Press.

BBQ Supper 6pm for first 100 to arrive
$20 includes dinner and lecture ticket
Book Signing follows the lecture

A unique collection of nearly one hundred images taken over a four-year period by thirty-four photographers as participants in PhotoAlliance workshops on Alcatraz Island taught by Robert Dawson.

Through support of the National Park Service the photographers were granted unprecedented access, even staying overnight in the main cellblock. The resulting pictures present diverse visions of beauty in decay. They highlight the eerie, almost supernatural mood of the former prison, bringing texture to its historical artifacts and architecture, and evoking the extreme isolation and despair of inmates whose only remaining traces are suggestions of blood spatters and scratches on the walls. Hidden Alcatraz includes a foreword by actor Peter Coyote, who was present during the 1971 occupation by members of the American Indian Movement, and an introduction by John Martini, one of the island’s first park rangers and an expert on its history.

More info can be seen at:

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520260849


Hear Peter Coyote read from the book on Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/05/peter-coyote-reads-from-hidden-alcatraz.html