Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

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Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Guns are passed to the picket tower; the line returns from work, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1968, printed 2011
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 5/8 × 12 7/8 in. (21.9 × 32.7 cm) Sheet: 10 15/16 × 14 in. (27.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2015.12.28
Not on view
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Provenance 2015: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson.
Markings Verso (stamp, red ink with pencil): "Printer [illegible, in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 68 [in pencil] / Print Date 11 [in pencil]"
Published References Illustrated in Danny Lyon, CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD, PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRISON LIFE WITH THE LETTERS AND DRAWINGS OF BILLY MCCUNE (London: Phaidon, 2015), p. 53.
Signature Verso, lower center (pencil): "D Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLTX-53"
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Return from the fields, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.46
Photograph by John Bentham.
Convicts Being Transported in Wagons to Work, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968, printed 2011
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.11.8
Main corridor after work, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Main corridor after work, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968, printed 2011
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.29
Photo by John Bentham.
Untitled (Road to prison from inside car) from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.20
Photo by Dave Revette.
Entering prison, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.22
Main corridor, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Main corridor, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.23
Photo by Dave Revette.
Man with large tattoo of woman, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.27
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Aaron Evert Jones, Jr., from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.40
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Cell of two Chicano convicts, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.42
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Visiting room, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.47
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Waiting to weigh cotton, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.48
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Ramsey, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.45