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Heat Exhaustion, from the series "Conversations with the Dead" by Danny Lyon — VisualArtsDB

Heat Exhaustion, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

Heat Exhaustion, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

1967–1968

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 22.1 × 32.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.4 cm (11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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