Cell Block, from "Conversations with the Dead" / Danny Lyon
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.353
- Title
- Cell Block, from "Conversations with the Dead"
- Artist
- Danny Lyon
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1942
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1968; printed 2011
- Credit Line
- Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
- Inscription
- signed in pencil, verso
- Bleak Beauty stamp, verso
- Dimensions
- 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in.)
- Physical Description
- A view of two levels of prison blocks. The cells on the bottom are empty and the one above is closed and a prisoner is leaning out.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- correctional institutions
- institutional buildings
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3087 x 4554
- File Size
- 362 KB
- Record
- 2014/2.353
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.353/2014_2.353.jpg
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"Cell Block, from "Conversations with the Dead"; Danny Lyon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.353/2014_2.353.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.