Six-Wing Cell Block, from "Conversations with the Dead" / Danny Lyon

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Accession Number: 2014/2.354
Title: Six-Wing 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: 27.94 x 35.56 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Physical Description: A group of prisoners in a relaxed area of a cell block. Most are seated and some are standing.
Primary Keywords: jail; men; prison
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
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 4571 x 3076
File Size: 447 KB
Record: 2014/2.354
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.354/2014_2.354.jpg

In public portfolios: Prison & Punishment (33); Race, gender, class and American identity (393); Sociability and social spaces (241); The crowd (173)

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Full citation: "Six-Wing 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-2.354/2014_2.354.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.