Contents of arriving prisoner's wallet from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Contents of arriving prisoner's wallet from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1942)
Date1968, printed 2011
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 12 7/8 in. (22.1 × 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 number2015.12.26
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 K [in pencil] / BLEAK BEAUTY / Picture Date 1968 [in pencil] / Print Date 2011 [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. 23.
Signature Verso, lower center (pencil): "D Lyon"
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): "DLTX-23"
© 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
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
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
© 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