Young convict about to discharge a ten-year sentence. Apparatus to open cells, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

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Young convict about to discharge a ten-year sentence. Apparatus to open cells, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Young convict about to discharge a ten-year sentence. Apparatus to open cells, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1968; printed 2011
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/16 × 9 15/16 in. (25.6 × 25.2 cm) Sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.83
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso (stamp, black ink with pencil): "Printer K [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 1968 [in pencil] / Print Date 2011 [in pencil]"
Published References Danny Lyon, Conversations with the Dead, Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune (London: Phaidon, 2015), illus. 125.
Signature Verso, lower center (pencil): "Danny Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLTX-123"
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
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Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.42
Photo by John Bentham.
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Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.24
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
© Danny Lyon. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, …
Inmate outside warden’s office, about to be transferred by local authorities, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.44
Photo by John Bentham.
Entering prison, seven years and life, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.21
Photo by John Bentham.
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Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.25
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The line. Twenty-five, five, thirty-five, forty and fifteen years, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968; printed 2016
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.79
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
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"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968, printed 2011
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.28
© 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
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New arrivals from Corpus Christi, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968; printed 2011
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.53
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