num_pages: 196
description: A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography.Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera.This new edition has been updated with an afterward by Lyon himself detailing what happened to the inmates in the 40 years since the book was first published. It also offers new, unseen material including outtake images, audio recordings and newly commissioned texts on a specially created microsite as a free ibook edition of this landmark publication.Features: - A new afterward by Danny Lyon
language: English
title: Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life, with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054
titlecomplete: Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life, with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054
genres: Photography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston