Weight-lifters
Artist
Danny Lyon
(American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1968-1969
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 1/16 × 11 15/16 in. (20.5 × 30.3 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.8 × 35.2 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 number2006.18.14
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of two prisoners standing in a small white brick room. One of them is reading a letter and the other is lifting weights.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), 129 ISBN: 978-0030850691
