New arrivals from Corpus Christi, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

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New arrivals from Corpus Christi, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
New arrivals from Corpus Christi, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist/Maker Danny Lyon American, born 1942
Date1968; printed 2011
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 13 in. (22.4 × 33 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2019.18.53
Not on view
Collections
Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD, PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRISON LIFE WITH THE LATTERS AND DRAWINGS OF BILLY MCCUNE (London: Phaidon, 2015), illus. 31.

Additional Details

Provenance 2019: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Verso, lower right corner (stamp, black ink): "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 LATTERS AND DRAWINGS OF BILLY MCCUNE (London: Phaidon, 2015), illus. 31.
Signature Verso, lower center (pencil)
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "DLTX-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
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
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
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