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Language: English
Published by Phaidon Press, 2015
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - As new
US$ 97.78
Item description from seller
Danny Lyon is known for photographing people outside the world of social justice and human rights advocacy. As the first photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, he was actively involved in the civil rights movement as both a participant and a photojournalist. In the mid-1960s, he joined the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club and spent two years traveling and photographing bikers. In 1967, recognizing the inequalities of the correctional system, Lyon drove from his home state of New York to Huntsville, Texas, to undertake what many consider his most powerful work. With full access granted by the director of the Texas Department of Correction (TDC), Lyon visited seven different prisons housing the general population (The Walls and Ramsey), as well as juveniles (Ferguson), women (Goree), the elderly and mentally ill (Wynne), newcomers to the system (Diagnosis), and those considered most dangerous (Ellis). The photographs detail the daily lives of the convicts, including highly regulated meals, brutal working conditions, and dehumanizing "extortion." In his own words, he tried "to make this image of incarceration as distressing as it actually is.".…
Seller Inventory # 9780714870519
- Title
- Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054
- Author
- Danny Lyon
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 071487051X
- ISBN 13
- 9780714870519
- Item weight
- 1,252 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.22 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 29.21 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Photography Books
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
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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).
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