Schizophrenic inmate, imprisoned twenty 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)
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 number2006.18.17
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a black and white, silver gelatin print of an African American man behind bars and holding a cigarette. He looks directly into the camera.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), 175 ISBN: 978-0030850691
Danny Lyon
1963-1964, printed 1999
Danny Lyon
August 1963, printed 1999
Danny Lyon
1962, printed 1999
Danny Lyon
Winter, 1963-64
