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[Road to prison form inside car] Diagnostic Center is a processing for inmates entering prison. Men arrive there from county jails throughout the state. After about a month they are classified and assigned to a unit to begin their sentence from the series Conversations with the Dead
[Road to prison form inside car] Diagnostic Center is a processing for inmates entering prison. Men arrive there from county jails throughout the state. After about a month they are classified and assigned to a unit to begin their sentence from the series Conversations with the Dead

[Road to prison form inside car] Diagnostic Center is a processing for inmates entering prison. Men arrive there from county jails throughout the state. After about a month they are classified and assigned to a unit to begin their sentence from the series Conversations with the Dead

Artist (American, born 1942)
Date1968–69, printed later
Period20th century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsObject Size: 11 x 14 inches
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Nicholas
Object number2015.154
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States
Prison tattoos, Walls Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Prison tattoos, Walls Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968/printed later
Object number: 2014.153
Showers, Diagnostic Center, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Showers, Diagnostic Center, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968
Object number: 1983.039
Age 18, six years, theft; Age 18, three years, burglary; Age 18, four years, forgery, Diagnostic Center, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Age 18, six years, theft; Age 18, three years, burglary; Age 18, four years, forgery, Diagnostic Center, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1967/printed later
Object number: 2014.150
35. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center . . . released photos . . . from 700 miles above the earth, show[ing] a pattern of clearcutting throughout the entire rain forest of the Northwest that is so extensive that the land looks perforated by a giant blast of buck-shot. . . . Ninety percent of the original Northwest forest is gone. Timothy Egan The New York Times, June 1992 From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
35. Along Floras Creek, Curry County, Oregon. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center . . . released photos . . . from 700 miles above the earth, show[ing] a pattern of clearcutting throughout the entire rain forest of the Northwest that is so extensive that the land looks perforated by a giant blast of buck-shot. . . . Ninety percent of the original Northwest forest is gone. Timothy Egan The New York Times, June 1992 From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.035
Seven years flat on a twenty-year sentence, from the series Conversations with the Dead
Seven years flat on a twenty-year sentence, from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968/69, printed later
Object number: 2015.205
Image Not Available for 59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
59. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.059
60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
60. Clatsop County, Oregon. To be denied the original forest that stood here is to be orphaned, as children whose parents died in a war. In this situation we can never take comfort from the whole shape of the natural lives that bore us. John Szarkowski has written about how Eugene Atget’s photographs of old trees in France “describe the particular ways that trees articulate their forms, effloresce, bear fruit, grip the earth, claim space and light, and fail.” That testimony of completeness is destroyed by clearcutting, and with it an encouragement to wisdom and peace. From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
Robert Adams
1999–2003
Object number: 2006.026.060
Weight-lifters, Walls Unit, Ramsey Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Weight-lifters, Walls Unit, Ramsey Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968/printed later
Object number: 2014.155
The line, Ferguson Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
The line, Ferguson Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968
Object number: 1983.034
Cotton pickers, Ferguson Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Cotton pickers, Ferguson Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968
Object number: 1983.035
Clearing land, Ellis Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Clearing land, Ellis Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968
Object number: 1983.036
The line. Twenty-five, five, thirty-five, forty and fifteen years, Ramsey Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
The line. Twenty-five, five, thirty-five, forty and fifteen years, Ramsey Unit, Texas from the series Conversations with the Dead
Danny Lyon
1968
Object number: 1983.037