The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Interior of a Prisoner's Cell, Walls Unit
1969, printed 2014
(American, 1942-)
Image: 22.6 x 33.4 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.); Paper: 27.7 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)
Gift of Holly and James Bogin 2017.304
Location: Not on view
Description
Danny Lyon has called himself a journalist and his work “advocacy journalism.” This scene is part of a series called Conversations with the Dead, the result of the fourteen months in 1967–68 that Lyon spent photographing inside the Texas penitentiary system. “I tried with whatever power I had to make a picture of imprisonment as distressing as I knew it to be in reality.”- {{cite web|title=Interior of a Prisoner's Cell, Walls Unit|url=false|author=Danny Lyon|year=1969, printed 2014|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.304