Entering Prison
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 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in. (35.2 × 27.8 cm)
InscribedSigned in pencil on verso
Credit LineGift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2006.18.3
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of a handcuffed prisoner being escorted by a guard into prison.ProvenanceDr. Stephen Nicholas [via guidance of Michael Mattis], Scarsdale, NY; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Gift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas, 2006. 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), 21 ISBN: 978-0030850691
