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Return from the fields, shakedown at the rear gate. Twice every work day, from Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters of of Billy McCune #122054, 1971
Return from the fields, shakedown at the rear gate. Twice every work day, from Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters of of Billy McCune #122054, 1971
Object number2018.37.11

Return from the fields, shakedown at the rear gate. Twice every work day, from Conversations with the Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters of of Billy McCune #122054, 1971

Date1968/1969
Artist (American, born 1942)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed later
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Image: 8 7/8 × 13 1/8 in. (22.5 × 33.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Claudia and Steven Schwartz in honor of Sarah Goetz, class of 2010
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (verso, in pencil)
InscribedInscribed (verso, in graphite): (LLC) DLTX-157; (Lower Center) Artist Signature; (LRC, stamped, red ink) Printer/ BLEAK BEAUTY/ Picture Date 1968 Print Date 2011
Descriptionp. 157
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