Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054

Danny Lyon; Billy McCune

ISBN 10: 071487051X / ISBN 13: 9780714870519

Published by Phaidon Press, 2015

About this Item

Remastered facsimile reprint of the 1971 first edition. Faint wear to dust jacket. No marks, inscriptions or fading to inside pages. Not ex-library. Not a remainder. Binding is firm. 204 pages. s175.

Seller Inventory # EDB06155

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071487051X
• ISBN 13: 9780714870519
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography.

Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera.

This new edition has been updated with an afterward by Lyon himself detailing what happened to the inmates in the 40 years since the book was first published. It also offers new, unseen material including outtake images, audio recordings and newly commissioned texts on a specially created microsite as a free ibook edition of this landmark publication.

Features:
- A new afterward by Danny Lyon

About the Author

Danny Lyon has long been considered one of the most original and influential documentary photographers and has produced numerous highly collectible photobooks, mounted solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and ten National Endowment for the Arts awards. Lyon divides his time between New York State and New Mexico.

Other Danny Lyon photography books published by Phaidon include Danny Lyon: Memories of Myself (2009), Deep Sea Diver: An American Photographer's Journey in Shanxi, China (2011), and The Seventh Dog (2014).