Alex Benjamin
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December 5 until January 31st.
Man I'd love to see this...
www.howardgreenberg.com
From the website:
"In 1967, Lyon gained unprecedented access to seven Texas penitentiaries for 14 months, aiming to record the reality of incarceration. He was free to enter the prisons at any time of the day or night, and photographed men in their cells, in the fields and factories where they worked, eating at the cafeteria, in isolation and during shakedowns. This resulted in raw, empathetic images of marginalized individuals, published in 1971 as the highly regarded photobook Conversations with the Dead. Known for his immersive approach, Lyon's style broke from traditional journalism by blending personal perspective with documentary storytelling. Revolutionary for its time, Conversations with the Dead was among the first photobooks to incorporate ephemera, setting a new standard in journalism and photography and influencing generations.
Presenting Lyon’s record of Texas prisons, the exhibition will showcase primarily vintage prints alongside select modern work and original artwork by the incarcerated, as well as drawings, letters, prison-related documents, audio interviews, and 16mm film footage. Taken as a whole, the exhibition offers not only a rare and intimate glimpse into life inside seven Texas penitentiaries in the late 1960s but highlights the relationships Lyon built with inmates. On view for the first time, the exhibition will also present unpublished pictures by Lyon from his visits to the Goree Unit, Texas’s women’s penitentiary."
Man I'd love to see this...
Danny Lyon | Howard Greenberg Gallery
Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism...
www.howardgreenberg.com
From the website:
"In 1967, Lyon gained unprecedented access to seven Texas penitentiaries for 14 months, aiming to record the reality of incarceration. He was free to enter the prisons at any time of the day or night, and photographed men in their cells, in the fields and factories where they worked, eating at the cafeteria, in isolation and during shakedowns. This resulted in raw, empathetic images of marginalized individuals, published in 1971 as the highly regarded photobook Conversations with the Dead. Known for his immersive approach, Lyon's style broke from traditional journalism by blending personal perspective with documentary storytelling. Revolutionary for its time, Conversations with the Dead was among the first photobooks to incorporate ephemera, setting a new standard in journalism and photography and influencing generations.
Presenting Lyon’s record of Texas prisons, the exhibition will showcase primarily vintage prints alongside select modern work and original artwork by the incarcerated, as well as drawings, letters, prison-related documents, audio interviews, and 16mm film footage. Taken as a whole, the exhibition offers not only a rare and intimate glimpse into life inside seven Texas penitentiaries in the late 1960s but highlights the relationships Lyon built with inmates. On view for the first time, the exhibition will also present unpublished pictures by Lyon from his visits to the Goree Unit, Texas’s women’s penitentiary."
