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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1972.23
People
Danny Lyon, American (Brooklyn, New York born 1942)
Title
The Line
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Conversations with the Dead
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1967-1969
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285264

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 27.7 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso: 67-7-611/32

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of The Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Marcus Foundation
Copyright
© Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos
Accession Year
1972
Object Number
P1972.23
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Makeda Best, Louisiana Medley: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, exh. cat., ed. Kathryn E. Delmez, First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville (Nashville, 2018), p. 35, fig. 6, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Master Photographs in the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/11/1971 - 12/06/1971
  • American Photographs at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 09/13/2018 - 12/30/2018

Verification Level

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