Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054 [with exhibition ephemera]
Danny Lyon [photos]; Billy McCune [contrib.]
Language: English
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1971
- Hardcover
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Stated Second Printing. Oblong quarto (21x28.5cm); publisher's grey boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket with $14.95 price intact; 196pp; illustrations throughout. Dust jacket toned with a few instances of soiling; tears forming along bottom edge but no obstruction to text. Boards bumped; binding sound. Textblock foxed; endsheets toned; interior pages clean. Very Good only copy of this significant work of photojournalism. Lyons visited six Texas prisons over fourteen months, taking photographs and collecting testimonials from prisoners. Laid-in at front is a side-stapled pamphlet for the corresponding exhibit at Rice University, which preceded the publication of the book.
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- Title
- Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054 [with exhibition ephemera]
- Author
- Danny Lyon [photos]; Billy McCune [contrib.]
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
- Publication year
- 1971
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Dust jacket
- Very Good -
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0030850681
- ISBN 13
- 9780030850684
- Item weight
- 4 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Illustrators, 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
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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