Gallery: Inside the Architecture of Authority

Gallery: Inside the Architecture of Authority: "A new book by photographer Richard Ross, Architecture of Authority, examines the way institutional buildings exert power over people. Ross managed to gain impressive access to all kinds of secretive or high-security buildings, from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, to the supermax high-security Pelican Bay prison in California. Ross credits his unprecedented access to a combination of persistence and sincere curiosity. 'Many of these people want to show you these places once they know that you're interested in their world,' he says."