The Benetton text is available here.

The following readings are from Convergences. Original source information is taken from the Acknowledgements portion of the Convergences text.

 Chapter Introduction to chapter 1, Staging Portraits. Originally located in Convergences text.

Dorothy Alison, What Did You Expect? From Allure Magazine, April 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Dorothy Alison. Reprinted with permission of author.

Anne Sexton, Résumé, 1965. From Anne Sexton: The Last Summer (2000). Reprinted by permission of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

Anne Sexton, Self in 1958. From Live or Die by Anne Sexton (1976). Copyright © 1958 by Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Arthur Furst, Anne Sexton, Summer 1974. From Anne Sexton: The Last Summer (2000). © Arthur Furst. Reprinted by permission of Arthur Furst.

David Sedaris, Ashes. From Naked by David Sedaris (New York: Little, Brown, 1998). Copyright © 1997 by David Sedaris. By permission of Little, Brown and Company Inc.

Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette, 1989 image. From Immediate Family. © Sally Mann. Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York. Reproduced by permission of Sally Mann.

Melissa Harris, Daughter, Model, Muse Jessie Mann on Being Photographed. Originally located in Convergences text.

Joyce Carol Oates, They All Just Went Away. First printed in The New Yorker in 1995. © The Ontario Review. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Barbara Ehrenreich, Dirty Laundry: Benetton’s ‘We, On Death Row’ Campaign. Found in Aperture 160 (Summer 2000). Reprinted by permission.

Ken Shulman, excerpt from “We, on Death Row”. United Colors of Benetton, January 2000. ©Ken Shulman. Reprinted with permission of the author.

Oliverio Toscani, Edgar Ace Hope, Carlette Parker, Jeremy Sheets. Photos by Oliverio Toscani. Reprinted by permission of Oliverio Toscani.

Joseph Rodriguez, Chivo, Members of Florencia 13 gang outside school, Mike Estrada holds a photo of his father who is in prison, Funeral of two-and-a-half-year-old Thomas Regalado III. From East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A. (1996). All photographs courtesy of Joseph Rpdriguez/Black Star.

Richard Rodriguez, Gangstas. From Mother Jones, January/February 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Richard Rodriguez. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for the author.