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9780714870519 English 071487051X "A digitally remastered facsimile edition 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. Revolutionary in the 1970s, Lyon?s record of life inside the Texas prison system was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera and has been out of print for over 40 years. A valuable collector?s item, first edition hardbacks in good condition sell for over $1000, this edition has been updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon. The growth of the prison population in the US ? currently the largest in the world ? and recent debate over the drugs used in carrying out the death penalty highlight the continued relevance of this book today.", A digitally remastered facsimile edition 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. Revolutionary in the 1970s, Lyon's record of life inside the Texas prison system was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera and has been out of print for over 40 years. A valuable collector's item, first edition hardbacks in good condition sell for over $1000, this edition has been updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon. The growth of the prison population in the US - currently the largest in the world - and recent debate over the drugs used in carrying out the death penalty highlight the continued relevance of this book today., In 1967 Danny Lyon spent 14 months embedded within six different Texas penitentiaries. With the backdrop of the Vietnam war, and the civil rights movement a few years previously, Lyon was a active proponent of liberal ideals. Having just finished his groundbreaking work, 'The Bikeriders', he was very socio-politically engaged and wanted to give a voice to the 'dregs' of society. Having persuaded the Texas prison authorities he was an avid supporter of their system, he was given unprecedented unlimited access to the facilities and the inmates, under the full cooperation of the authorities. Inside the walls of the prisons, he developed close relationships and friendships with several inmates, who opened up to him as a confidante. The photographs he took and the ephemera he collected (letters, official documents and drawings and writings by Billy McCune) during this time are assembled together in this influential photobook that reveals Lyon's compassionate and uncompromising view of the brutality of the US judicial system. The original version of the book, in 1969, appeared as a small unfinished portfolio printed in the print shop of one of the prisons, 'Walls', and was entitled, Born to Lose . It was supervised by a convict called Smiley (James Renton), who was also one of its featured subjects (and subject of Lyon's nonfiction book, Like a Thief's Dream ). It was first published as a hardback in 1971 by Holt, Rinehart and Winson. Having been out of print for over 40 years, Phaidon is now republishing this extraordinary inside view of Texas state prison, which Martin Parr and Gerry Badger acknowledge 'remains as powerful and as relevant as ever'. Its publication precedes an retrospective exhibition of Danny Lyon's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in Summer 2016, which will travel to the De Young Museum, San Francisco in Fall 2016 and then to another American institution (TBC). The physical book itself will be a facsimile edition of the 1971 hardback original. The book will be updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon describing what has happened to the inmates since the book was first published.
9780714870519 English 071487051X "A digitally remastered facsimile edition 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. Revolutionary in the 1970s, Lyon?s record of life inside the Texas prison system was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera and has been out of print for over 40 years. A valuable collector?s item, first edition hardbacks in good condition sell for over $1000, this edition has been updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon. The growth of the prison population in the US ? currently the largest in the world ? and recent debate over the drugs used in carrying out the death penalty highlight the continued relevance of this book today.", A digitally remastered facsimile edition 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. Revolutionary in the 1970s, Lyon's record of life inside the Texas prison system was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera and has been out of print for over 40 years. A valuable collector's item, first edition hardbacks in good condition sell for over $1000, this edition has been updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon. The growth of the prison population in the US - currently the largest in the world - and recent debate over the drugs used in carrying out the death penalty highlight the continued relevance of this book today., In 1967 Danny Lyon spent 14 months embedded within six different Texas penitentiaries. With the backdrop of the Vietnam war, and the civil rights movement a few years previously, Lyon was a active proponent of liberal ideals. Having just finished his groundbreaking work, 'The Bikeriders', he was very socio-politically engaged and wanted to give a voice to the 'dregs' of society. Having persuaded the Texas prison authorities he was an avid supporter of their system, he was given unprecedented unlimited access to the facilities and the inmates, under the full cooperation of the authorities. Inside the walls of the prisons, he developed close relationships and friendships with several inmates, who opened up to him as a confidante. The photographs he took and the ephemera he collected (letters, official documents and drawings and writings by Billy McCune) during this time are assembled together in this influential photobook that reveals Lyon's compassionate and uncompromising view of the brutality of the US judicial system. The original version of the book, in 1969, appeared as a small unfinished portfolio printed in the print shop of one of the prisons, 'Walls', and was entitled, Born to Lose . It was supervised by a convict called Smiley (James Renton), who was also one of its featured subjects (and subject of Lyon's nonfiction book, Like a Thief's Dream ). It was first published as a hardback in 1971 by Holt, Rinehart and Winson. Having been out of print for over 40 years, Phaidon is now republishing this extraordinary inside view of Texas state prison, which Martin Parr and Gerry Badger acknowledge 'remains as powerful and as relevant as ever'. Its publication precedes an retrospective exhibition of Danny Lyon's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in Summer 2016, which will travel to the De Young Museum, San Francisco in Fall 2016 and then to another American institution (TBC). The physical book itself will be a facsimile edition of the 1971 hardback original. The book will be updated with a new afterword by Danny Lyon describing what has happened to the inmates since the book was first published.