Meal Line, The Walls, Huntsville, Texas
Date1967
Artist
Danny Lyon
(American photographer, born 1942)
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 9 1/8 × 13 11/16 in. (23.2 × 34.8 cm)
sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and contributions, 1979
Object number1979-47
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextFor his book Conversations with the Dead, Danny Lyon documented six Texas prisons over 14 months. Working with the full cooperation of the Texas Department of Corrections, Lyon captured the distressing reality of the penal system.
