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Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany, Georgia.
In 1962 Danny Lyon became the original staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which is a national assembly of college students who had joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions capturing telling moments of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Police Brutality
One of high school student Taylor Washington's numerous arrests is immortalized as he yells while passing before me. The photograph became the cover of SNCC's photo book, The Movement, and was reproduced in the former Soviet Union in Pravda, captioned "Police Brutality USA."
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Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee
Danny Lyon submerged himself into his subject’s everyday life. From 1963 to 1967 he photographed the Chicago Outlaws, a renegade motorcycle club, during which he became a member of the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club; traveling with them, and sharing their lifestyle. This project was published as The Bikeriders in 1967 and was his earliest significant photographic essay.
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Release of "The Bikeriders"
Corky and Funny Sonny, ChicagoIn 1967 his first collection "The Bikeriders" was published. -
The St. George building; women search for the Beekman Hospital
The Destruction of Lower Manhattan presents vintage photographs by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon. Created between 1966 and 1967, Lyon's photo essay addresses the demolition of some 60 acres of mostly 19th-century buildings below Canal Street. The Destruction of Lower Manhattan -
Hoe sharpener and the Line
Conversations with the Dead document life within the Texas prison system. With the full cooperation of the Texas Department of Corrections, Lyon photographed in six prisons over a fourteen-month period in 1967 and 1968.
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Life Raft Earth
Danny Lyon assisted Robert Frank on a documentary about "The Hunger show," a week-long fast staged by the Portola Institute in California. This was a "happening" designed to make the problem of world hunger and malnutrition a personal matter for participants and observers. The film records the event which took place from October 11 to October 18, 1969 in a parking lot in Hayward.
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Converstaions with the dead relased
In 1971 Danny Lyon's most well known photo essay collection Conversations with the Dead was published.
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Los Niños Abandonados
Lyon has also made extraordinary films among them is the 1975 film Los Niños Abandonados. -
Little Boy
Another film among those considered to be his best is the 1977 film of Little Boy.
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The Paper Negative
In addition to photography essay's and films Danny Lyon has also published books. In 1980 he wrote The Paper Negative, an autobiographical account of life in New Mexico as told through a fictional character.
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Pictures from the New World
In 1981 Danny Lyon released his unusual autobiography Pictures from the New World.
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I Like to Eat Right on the Dirt
In 1989 he published I Like to Eat Right on the Dirt, which contained a collection of poloriods he had taken of his children. -
Memories of Myself
This book presents a collection of Lyon's photo essays, published in their complete form for the first time, accompanied by texts written by Lyon in his own distinctive voice.
Danny Lyon Memories of Myself
