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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)
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
Not on view
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
