Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2007.

Boss

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)

CultureAmerican

Date1968-1969

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 11 3/4 × 8 in. (29.8 × 20.3 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 7/8 × 11 in. (35.2 × 27.9 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

InscribedSigned in pencil on verso

Credit LineGift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas

Object number2006.18.6

On View

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of two men working on a chain gang with a guard on a horse watching over them.

Label TextDanny Lyon American (b. 1942) Boss from Conversations with the Dead, Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune, 1968-1969 Gelatin silver print Gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas 2006.18.6ProvenanceDr. Stephen Nicholas [via guidance of Michael Mattis], Scarsdale, NY; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas, 2006. Exhibition History'Recent Photography Acquistions," Alice R. and Frank B. Sol Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, December 12, 2008. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Conversations with the Dead, Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune_ (New York: Henry Holt & Company, Inc., 1971), 51 ISBN: 978-0030850691