An Unfinished Prison Story – The New Yorker

An Unfinished Prison Story

Danny Lyon reflects on the decades since the publication of his seminal portrait of prison life.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-unfinished-prison-story

In 1967, Danny Lyon, a young photographer from New York who had spent the beginning of his career documenting the civil-rights movement, was granted permission by the Texas Department of Corrections to photograph freely inside the state’s penitentiaries