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Title
Convict Shouting During a Shakedown, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A group of prisoners all in different states of undress with officers around them. They are trying to put their clothes back on after a shakedown.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.361
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 14.37248
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
prison camp
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Title
Watering a Boss, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
An officer on top of a horse wearing a white cowboy hat. There is an African-American man standing next to him handing him water.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.352
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Entering Prison, Two Years for Burglary, Ten Years for Robbery, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
Two prisoners, shirtless in a line. There is a brick wall behind them.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968-1969; printed later
Accession Number
2014/2.345
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Six-Wing Cell Block, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A group of prisoners in a relaxed area of a cell block. Most are seated and some are standing.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.354
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Four Years, Burglary, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A man in a uniform looking at the camera against a dark wall. His head is shaved and his arms are outstretched against a railing behind him.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.347
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Cell Block (face behind bars, other prisoners behind him), from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A man with his arms crossed, resting on the horizontal bar of a cell. There are other prisoners behind him.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.357
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
The Yard, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A man working out in the yard. He is shirtless with a large bar on his shoulders. There are other prisoners in the yard too.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.349
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Day Room, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A group of prisoners in a room relaxing. Some look like they are watching television, others are talking and some are just sitting.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.359
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Condemned Man, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A prisoner in uniform with his hands cuffed and in front of him against a wood paneled wall. There is a man in a suit and glasses standing next to him.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968-1969; printed later
Accession Number
2014/2.351
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Convict in Prison Twenty Calendar Years, Life Sentence. Speaking is Forbidden in the Dining Room, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A man seated in a prison lunchroom wearing his uniform eating a meal. He is surrounded by other prisoners, but is eating alone.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
circa 1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.360
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Cell Block, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
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.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.353
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Main Corridors (Monitors), from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A group of prisoners standing with nine television screens above their heads.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.346
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Two Convicts, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
Two prisoners in uniform sitting on a wooden bench. Their legs are crossed and they are both looking to the right.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.355
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Dining Room (Convict Pouring from Pitcher), from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A group of uniformed prisoners in a dining room. Some of the men are seated and eating while others are in line waiting to get their food.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.348
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Building Shakedown, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A group of prisoners, naked, standing in a line next to a line of officers. They are in the hallway between the cells.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.358
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Jones and Raymond Jackson, Ten Years, Robbery, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
Two prisoners standing next to each other. One has his arm on the other's shoulder.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed later
Accession Number
2014/2.350
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Convict, from "Conversations with the Dead"
Artist
Danny Lyon
Physical Description
A close up of a man's face in between prison bars.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1942
Object Creation Date
1968; printed 2011
Accession Number
2014/2.356
Medium and Support
gelatin silver print on paper
relevance
rank 10.07030
Primary Keywords
jail
men
prison
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Title
Jewish Child
Artist
Fanny Rabel
Physical Description
A child sits inside a fence of barbed wire upon the bare dirt ground; beyond the fence lies nothing but burnt tree trunks. He is dressed in rags, and his feet are completely bandaged. Eyes sunken and lips pursed, he holds his hands up in a surrender-like state. It is implied by the title that this child is Jewish and is most likely being depicted inside one of the death camps during the Holocaust.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1924
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1924-1958
Accession Number
1958/1.109
Medium and Support
lithograph on paper
relevance
rank 9.74530
Primary Keywords
child
fences
judaica
prison camps
sitting
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Title
Holocaust 6
Artist
Eduard Bargheer
Physical Description
A menage of female figures lie entangled together, painted in many different colors. Certain body parts appear identifiable and are emphasized with bleeding lines. In the background appears straight-lined brush strokes emoting a fence or barricade much like one would see within a concentration camp. Beneath the watery brushstrokes are thin, precise lines.
Artist Life Dates
1901 - 1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1947
Accession Number
1948/2.1
Medium and Support
watercolor and graphite on paper
relevance
rank 8.76553
Primary Keywords
abstraction
figures (illustrations)
judaica
judaism
labor camps
prison camps
war
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