Untitled (Road to prison from inside car) from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

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Photo by John Bentham.
Untitled (Road to prison from inside car) from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1968 (printed 2011)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 in. × 13 in. (22.4 × 33 cm) Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.8 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2014.7.20
Not on view
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Provenance 2014: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso (stamp, red ink with pencil): "Printer K [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 1968 [in pencil] / Print Date 2011 [in pencil]"
Signature Verso (pencil): "D Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLTX-17"
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 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
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
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 John Bentham.
Cotton picker; ten years, robbery and assault from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.24
Photo by John Bentham.
Forty-five years, robbery from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.25
Photo by John Bentham.
Heat exhaustion, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.26
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
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
Boss, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Boss, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968, printed 2011
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.24
Clearing land, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Clearing land, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Danny Lyon
Date: 1968 (printed 2011)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.25