Description
“Danny Lyon: Conversations With The Dead. Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune”. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971 (1971). Oblong 4to in softcover. 196 pages, illustrated with 88 plates. Cover with some wear and a minor fold to back (see photos) else only minor edgewear and overall a clean very good copy
First edition softcover, 2nd printing of Danny Lyon’s seminal 1971 photobook: “highly influential in the history of documentary photography. Heralded as a “masterpiece” by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger in The Photobook: A History Volume II. Lyon’s revolutionary record of life inside the Texas prison system was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera
