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

New arrivals from Corpus Christi

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: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)

InscribedSigned in pencil on verso;

Credit LineGift of Dr. Stephen Nicholas

Object number2006.18.5

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DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of two prisoners standing in front of a brick wall with their shirts open and their tattoos showing.

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), 23 ISBN: 978-0030850691