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LL/48036
Danny Lyon
Book cover for Danny Lyon "Conversations with the Dead. Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune" (New York, Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1971)
1971
Book cover
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4443
 
LL/48036

1 of 78
LL/1131
Danny Lyon
Book cover for "Conversations with the Dead: An Exhibition of Photographs of Prison Life" by Danny Lyon
1970
Book cover
 
Arcana: Books on the Arts
 
LL/1131

2 of 78
LL/60867
Danny Lyon
Road to Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60867

3 of 78
LL/60868
Danny Lyon
Enter Prison, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60868

4 of 78
LL/60869
Danny Lyon
Entering Prison, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60869

5 of 78
LL/60870
Danny Lyon
Contents of arriving prisoner’s wallet, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60870

6 of 78
LL/60871
Danny Lyon
Entering Prison, two years for burglary, ten years for robbery, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60871

7 of 78
LL/60872
Danny Lyon
Showers, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60872

8 of 78
LL/60873
Danny Lyon
New Arrivals from Corpus Christi, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60873

9 of 78
LL/60874
Danny Lyon
Main Corridor, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60874

10 of 78
LL/60875
Danny Lyon
Four years, burglary, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60875

11 of 78
LL/60876
Danny Lyon
Dining Room, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60876

12 of 78
LL/60877
Danny Lyon
Age 18, six years, theft; age 18, three years, burglary; age 18, four years, forgery, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60877

13 of 78
LL/60878
Danny Lyon
The Line, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60878

14 of 78
LL/60879
Danny Lyon
Convict and Boss, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60879

15 of 78
LL/60880
Danny Lyon
Two years, burglary, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60880

16 of 78
LL/60881
Danny Lyon
Cotton Pickers, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60881

17 of 78
LL/60882
Danny Lyon
The Line 2, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60882

18 of 78
LL/60883
Danny Lyon
Hoe sharper and the line, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60883

19 of 78
LL/60884
Danny Lyon
Boss, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60884

20 of 78
LL/60885
Danny Lyon
Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60885

21 of 78
LL/60886
Danny Lyon
Main corridor, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60886

22 of 78
LL/60887
Danny Lyon
Main corridor, after work, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60887

23 of 78
LL/60888
Danny Lyon
Aaron Evert, Jr., Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60888

24 of 78
LL/60889
Danny Lyon
Main Entrance to Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60889

25 of 78
LL/60890
Danny Lyon
Meal line, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60890

26 of 78
LL/60891
Danny Lyon
Seven years flat on a twenty year sentence, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60891

27 of 78
LL/60892
Danny Lyon
Cell of two Chicano convicts, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60892

28 of 78
LL/60893
Danny Lyon
Three convicts, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60893

29 of 78
LL/60894
Danny Lyon
Dominoes, cell block table, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60894

30 of 78
LL/60895
Danny Lyon
Prison tattoos, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60895

31 of 78
LL/60896
Danny Lyon
Aaron Evert, Jones, life, habitual criminal, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60896

32 of 78
LL/60897
Danny Lyon
Norris Mundy, from Montreal, five years and an eight year federal hold, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60897

33 of 78
LL/60898
Danny Lyon
The Yard, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60898

34 of 78
LL/60899
Danny Lyon
Texas prison rodeo, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60899

35 of 78
LL/60900
Danny Lyon
Visiting room, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60900

36 of 78
LL/60901
Danny Lyon
Jones and Raymond Jackson, ten years robbery, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60901

37 of 78
LL/60902
Danny Lyon
Condemned man, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60902

38 of 78
LL/60903
Danny Lyon
The Electric Chair, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60903

39 of 78
LL/60925
Danny Lyon
The Line. Twenty-five, five, thirty-five, forty and fifteen years, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60925

40 of 78
LL/60926
Danny Lyon
The Line, Ramsey Two, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60926

41 of 78
LL/60927
Danny Lyon
Waiting to weigh cotton, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60927

42 of 78
LL/60928
Danny Lyon
Watering a boss, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60928

43 of 78
LL/60929
Danny Lyon
Cotton picker; ten years, robbery and assault, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60929

44 of 78
LL/60930
Danny Lyon
Cotton picker; life sentence, robbery, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60930

45 of 78
LL/60931
Danny Lyon
Water Boy, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60931

46 of 78
LL/60932
Danny Lyon
Heat exhaustion, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60932

47 of 78
LL/60933
Danny Lyon
Hoe squad, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60933

48 of 78
LL/60934
Danny Lyon
Return from the fields, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60934

49 of 78
LL/60935
Danny Lyon
Shakedown before returning to the building, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60935

50 of 78
LL/60936
Danny Lyon
Shakedown, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60936

51 of 78
LL/60937
Danny Lyon
Cell block, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60937

52 of 78
LL/60938
Danny Lyon
Six-wing cell block, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60938

53 of 78
LL/60939
Danny Lyon
Young convict about to discharge a ten-year sentence. Apparatus to open cells, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60939

54 of 78
LL/60940
Danny Lyon
Two convicts, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60940

55 of 78
LL/60941
Danny Lyon
Convict, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60941

56 of 78
LL/60942
Danny Lyon
Weight lifters, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60942

57 of 78
LL/60943
Danny Lyon
Dining Room, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60943

58 of 78
LL/60944
Danny Lyon
Education Department, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60944

59 of 78
LL/60945
Danny Lyon
Classroom. Fifteen years, seven years, and a convicted teacher, fifteen years, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60945

60 of 78
LL/60946
Danny Lyon
Ramsey, Ramsey Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60946

61 of 78
LL/60947
Danny Lyon
Inmate outside warden’s office, about to be transferred by local authorities, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60947

62 of 78
LL/60948
Danny Lyon
Forty-five years, robbery, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60948

63 of 78
LL/60949
Danny Lyon
Heat exhaustion, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60949

64 of 78
LL/60950
Danny Lyon
Clearing Land, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60950

65 of 78
LL/60951
Danny Lyon
Young boss, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60951

66 of 78
LL/60952
Danny Lyon
Dog Boy, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60952

67 of 78
LL/60953
Danny Lyon
Return from the fields, shakedown at the rear gate. Twice work every work day, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60953

68 of 78
LL/60954
Danny Lyon
Shakedown, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60954

69 of 78
LL/60955
Danny Lyon
Shakedown, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60955

70 of 78
LL/60956
Danny Lyon
Shakedown, main corridor, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60956

71 of 78
LL/60957
Danny Lyon
Day room Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60957

72 of 78
LL/60958
Danny Lyon
Cell block, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60958

73 of 78
LL/60959
Danny Lyon
Building shakedown, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60959

74 of 78
LL/60960
Danny Lyon
Day room, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60960

75 of 78
LL/60961
Danny Lyon
Convict in prison twenty calendar years, life sentence. Speaking is forbidden in the dining room. Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60961

76 of 78
LL/60962
Danny Lyon
Schizophrenic inmate imprisoned twenty years, Wynn Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60962

77 of 78
LL/60963
Danny Lyon
Billy McCune, Wynn Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]
1968
Gelatin silver print
 
Etherton Gallery
 
LL/60963

78 of 78
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