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...writers working in special areas: Art Critic Robert Hughes, Design Critic Wolf Von Eckardt, Music Critic Michael Walsh and Senior Writers Paul Gray and Lance Morrow. Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin went to Japan to direct the activities of Bureau Photo Editor Shoichi Imai and the assignments of Photographers Neil Leifer and Ted Thai...
...been shaped by Hollywood, from James Cagney's White Heat to Clint Eastwood's Escape from Alcatraz. TIME's Special Section this week sets out to capture the raw reality of both prison life and the people subjected to it. To this end, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer took his cameras over a period of a year to six state prisons, including one for women, and a federal penitentiary. He returned with an extraordinary collection of several thousand photographs...
...editors chose to publish 35 from Leifer's portfolio, the largest photo essay by a single photographer ever to run in TIME. All, except for the cover portrait of Attica Inmate Richard Eder, were black-and-white shots. Says Leifer: "Prison is a very, very boring existence for convicts. We sought an honest look." One of his most vivid portraits is of Charles Manson, convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969, who was photographed for the first time in his cell. At the start, Manson, whose drug-using, commune-organizing, desert-dwelling '60s life-style once made...
TIME Staff Writer Kurt Andersen wrote the main story after visiting most of the same institutions Leifer had photographed. Says Andersen, "I have never encountered an issue about which there is so much basic agreement on what is wrong and on what ought to be done." He had the expert help of Reporter-Researcher Alain Sanders, who has a degree from Columbia University Law School. Sanders saw his assignment as a "welcome chance to go beyond the minutiae of law and to see how the legal system affects people at its point of greatest impact...
From the start, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer's idea had a nice ring to it. With the film sequel Rocky III scheduled to open at about the same time that the long-awaited heavyweight fight takes place between Gerry Cooney and defending Champion Larry Holmes, Leifer proposed to exploit the coincidence by having Cooney and Actor Sylvester Stallone pose together. Leifer asked Stallone, who lives in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades, to fly East. Meanwhile, Leifer booked a suite at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills, where Cooney was training. Stallone slipped into the hotel by a back door...