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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2007.
The line. Twenty-five, five, thirty-five, forty and fifteen years
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2007.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2007.

The line. Twenty-five, five, thirty-five, forty and fifteen years

Artist Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1968-1969
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 1/8 × 12 in. (20.6 × 30.5 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.8 × 35.2 cm)
InscribedSigned in pencil on verso
Credit LineGift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2006.18.11
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of a line of young prisoners all sitting together and wearing white.

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), 95 ISBN: 978-0030850691
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