The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 14, 2025
Solitary Confinement, Ramsey Unit
1968, printed later
(American, b. 1942)
Image: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Danny Lyon was granted unprecedented permission to document the Texas prison system from the inside.Description
Over 14 months in 1967-1968 Lyon photographed throughout six prisons. Prisoners are often confined up to 23 hours per day in these solitary confinement cells. Lyon wrote about the photographs resulted from this project,"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=Solitary Confinement, Ramsey Unit|url=false|author=Danny Lyon|year=1968, printed later|access-date=14 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2023.80