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conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054

signed second edition, 2015.

groundbreaking collection of 1960s photographs chronicling life in six texas prisons. between 1967 and 1968, lyon spent fourteen months inside prisons as a "visiting photographer. the resulting work "is at once an intimately engaged social document and a study in outlaw masculinity." the first edition of "conversations with the dead" was published in 1971. his work had an outsized impact on the genre of documentay photography.

london, new york, toronto: phaidon. isbn: 9780714870519. 204 pages. 11.5 x 8.5". hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: near fine. jacket condition: slightest shelf wear throughout. unclipped. near fine. Item #1031

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Item #1031 conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054. danny lyon.
conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054
conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054
conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054
conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054
conversations with the dead: photographs of prison life with the letters and drawings of billy mccune #122054