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

Condemned man

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1968-1969
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 11 9/16 × 8 in. (29.4 × 20.3 cm)
Overall, Paper: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
InscribedSigned in pencil on verso
Credit LineGift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2006.18.10
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of a shackled and handcuffed prisoner wearing all white. There is a man standing the for ground of the photograph.

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), 87 ISBN: 978-0030850691