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Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead
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1.Danny Lyon
1971
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)

Book cover
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Courtesy of Bassenge, 19th-21st Century Photography, 6 June 2012, Lot: 4443
 
LL/48036
2.Danny Lyon
1970
Book cover for "Conversations with the Dead: An Exhibition of Photographs of Prison Life" by Danny Lyon

Book cover
Arcana: Books on the Arts
LL/1131
3.Danny Lyon
1968
Road to Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60867
4.Danny Lyon
1968
Enter Prison, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60868
5.Danny Lyon
1968
Entering Prison, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60869
6.Danny Lyon
1968
Contents of arriving prisoner's wallet, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60870
7.Danny Lyon
1968
Entering Prison, two years for burglary, ten years for robbery, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60871
8.Danny Lyon
1968
Showers, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60872
9.Danny Lyon
1968
New Arrivals from Corpus Christi, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60873
10.Danny Lyon
1968
Main Corridor, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60874
11.Danny Lyon
1968
Four years, burglary, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60875
12.Danny Lyon
1968
Dining Room, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60876
13.Danny Lyon
1968
Age 18, six years, theft; age 18, three years, burglary; age 18, four years, forgery, Diagnostic Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60877
14.Danny Lyon
1968
The Line, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60878
15.Danny Lyon
1968
Convict and Boss, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60879
16.Danny Lyon
1968
Two years, burglary, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60880
17.Danny Lyon
1968
Cotton Pickers, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60881
18.Danny Lyon
1968
The Line 2, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60882
19.Danny Lyon
1968
Hoe sharper and the line, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60883
20.Danny Lyon
1968
Boss, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60884
21.Danny Lyon
1968
Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60885
22.Danny Lyon
1968
Main corridor, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60886
23.Danny Lyon
1968
Main corridor, after work, Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60887
24.Danny Lyon
1968
Aaron Evert, Jr., Ferguson Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60888
25.Danny Lyon
1968
Main Entrance to Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60889
26.Danny Lyon
1968
Meal line, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60890
27.Danny Lyon
1968
Seven years flat on a twenty year sentence, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60891
28.Danny Lyon
1968
Cell of two Chicano convicts, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60892
29.Danny Lyon
1968
Three convicts, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60893
30.Danny Lyon
1968
Dominoes, cell block table, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60894
31.Danny Lyon
1968
Prison tattoos, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60895
32.Danny Lyon
1968
Aaron Evert, Jones, life, habitual criminal, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60896
33.Danny Lyon
1968
Norris Mundy, from Montreal, five years and an eight year federal hold, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60897
34.Danny Lyon
1968
The Yard, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60898
35.Danny Lyon
1968
Texas prison rodeo, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60899
36.Danny Lyon
1968
Visiting room, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60900
37.Danny Lyon
1968
Jones and Raymond Jackson, ten years robbery, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60901
38.Danny Lyon
1968
Condemned man, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60902
39.Danny Lyon
1968
The Electric Chair, The Walls
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60903
40.Danny Lyon
1968
Inmate outside warden's office, about to be transferred by local authorities, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60947
41.Danny Lyon
1968
Forty-five years, robbery, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60948
42.Danny Lyon
1968
Heat exhaustion, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60949
43.Danny Lyon
1968
Clearing Land, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60950
44.Danny Lyon
1968
Young boss, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60951
45.Danny Lyon
1968
Dog Boy, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60952
46.Danny Lyon
1968
Return from the fields, shakedown at the rear gate. Twice work every work day, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60953
47.Danny Lyon
1968
Shakedown, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

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

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60955
49.Danny Lyon
1968
Shakedown, main corridor, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60956
50.Danny Lyon
1968
Day room Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60957
51.Danny Lyon
1968
Cell block, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60958
52.Danny Lyon
1968
Building shakedown, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60959
53.Danny Lyon
1968
Day room, Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60960
54.Danny Lyon
1968
Convict in prison twenty calendar years, life sentence. Speaking is forbidden in the dining room. Ellis Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60961
55.Danny Lyon
1968
Schizophrenic inmate imprisoned twenty years, Wynn Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60962
56.Danny Lyon
1968
Billy McCune, Wynn Unit
[Conversations with the Dead]

Gelatin silver print
Etherton Gallery
LL/60963
   
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