Job/Security: A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry
An illuminating collection of candid interviews and photographs with workers in America's burgeoning security state. New from The MIT Press.
In a world increasingly under surveillance, this cutting-edge documentary collaboration turns the camera on the ever-expanding American security state. Job/Security bears photographic and narrative witness to the people tasked with safeguarding our modern world. In these uniquely revealing interviews and photographs, authors Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild assemble a multifaceted portrait of the labor of security. They offer a close-up, in-depth look at what the near-ubiquitous business of monitoring, guarding, and protecting life and property in the United States means for the individuals who do the work, and for the society they ostensibly serve.
Representing a wide range of perspectives from inside this vast field, Job/Security features men and women who work in homeland security, border patrol, the secret service, and emergency management, among other fields. In candid terms, these enforcers, critics, and targets of security regimes describe their working lives—their jobs, routines, backgrounds, and families—as well as their feelings about what they do. Their stories offer a rare glimpse into the internal complexities of security work and fresh insight into what the encroaching security state is doing to America's hearts and minds, one worker at a time, and to society at large, on an intimately human scale.
Rosterfield Motel, Cityscape Simulator, SPTC, Oriskany, NY, 2019.
40 x 50” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Tarmac at Reagan International, 2019
40 x 50” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Ambos Nogales (Arizona/Sonora), 2022
40 x 50” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4
Ambos Nogales (Arizona/Sonora), 2022
40 x 50” Archival Pirment Print
City Drugs, Cityscape Simulator, SPTC, Oriskany, NY, 2019.
83 x 72” C-Print, edition of 2.
Contractors: FLIR Systems, Inc., Wilsonville, OR, 2021.
32x40” Archival Pigment Print
USAR Simulator, SPTC, Oriskany, NY, 2019.
40 x 50″ Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Contractors: Triple Canopy, Reston, VA, 2021
Archival Pigment Print, 32x40”
Bean County Court House, Cityscape Simulator, SPTC, Oriskany, NY, 2019.
40 x 50” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Fresh Kills Landfill, Staten Island, NY, 2021
40 x 60” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Trees, Reston, VA, 2019
32x40” Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Dallas, TX, 2019
40 x 50” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4
Gobo, 2019.
32x40” Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Invisible Helderberg Escarpment, Berne, NY, 2018
44 x 55” Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4
Invisible Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, VA, 2018
32 x 40" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Penrose Triangle, 2017
44 x 55" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Necker Cube, 2018
44 x 55" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Graph Paper Prototype, 2018
40 x 32" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
CIA Headquarters, Langley, VA, 2018
40 x 60" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Western Ave., 2018
44 x 55" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
1978 OV10 Turret with 1974 Tow Night Sight and Display, 2018
44 x 55" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
1974 Prototype TOW Night Sight, 2018
44 x 55" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
X's Rolexes, 2018 (After Felix Gonzalez Torres)
11 x 14" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Invisible Object #24, 2016
52 x 44" Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Invisible Object #6, 2016
44 x 52" Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Color Checker in Invisible Landscape
44x52" Archival Pigment Print, 2015, Edition of 6
OOO, 2016
44 x 52" Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Duct Tape Decoy, 2014
52 x 44" Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
3D Duct Tape on Transparent Layer, 2014
44 x 44" Archival Pigment on Paper, Edition of 4.
3-D Screwdriver, 2015
52 x 44" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Untitled Suburban Installation with Log Prototype, 2013
44 x 60" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4
Film Box Prototype, 2013
44 x 52" Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Installation View, Way Out Gallery, 2013
Rensselaerville, NY
Installation View, 2016
Boor Sculpture Studio, Albany, NY
Installation View, 2016
Boor Sculpture Studio, Albany, NY
12 Daniel Goodwins in 12 Square Miles, 2013
44 x 52" Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 4.
Log Prototype #1, 2013
24 x 52" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Suburban Grid #3, 2013
44 x 52" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Suicide Drone Prototype, 2013
44 x 52" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Claymore (Inert), 2017
44 x 54" Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 4.
Decoy: Home of Daniel Goodwin, 2009
Helium-filled Mylar Balloons, Stainless Steel Cable, Acrylic on Paper, Polyurethane, Proprietary Wireless Video Camera. Edition of 12.
Installation View of "Decoys", Boor Sculpture Studio, Albany, NY, 2009
Helium-filled Mylar Balloons, Stainless Steel Cable, Acrylic on Paper, Polyurethane, Proprietary Wireless Video Camera, LCD Monitor and Video Receiver, Haliburton Zero Case. Unique.
Installation Detail, Jack the Pelican Presents, 2003
Brooklyn, NY. Wireless Video Transceiver, 5" LCD monitors, Aluminum, Dimensions Variable.
Undergarment Incendiary Device (a la Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab), 2010
44 x 52", Archival Pigment Print, edition of 4.
Dental Bridge Tranceiver, 1999
8 x 10" Fuji Crystal Archive C-Print, edition of 8.
Booby-Trapped Teakettle, 1998
11 x 14" Gelatin-Silver Print, Edition of 12.