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Many of Lyon’s most vivid civil rights photographs capture violent clashes between protesters and armed police. One flashlit shot from 1964 taken in Cambridge, Maryland, shows a young Stokely Carmichael staring at a National Guardsman with a fixed bayonet.
Lyon: The Russian side was involved in the 1905 revolution. My uncle Abram played a part in the first-degree murder of a policeman, and came to America fleeing the draft. My mother arrived later, at the age of fifteen and was a garment worker who got fired for being a Communist.
Mar 14, 2017 · Danny Lyon’s photograph of prisoners toiling in a cotton field can be better understood alongside other images of labor.
Danny Lyon Occupy LA, 2017. From the book American Blood. © Danny Lyon | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon, Vintage Works demonstrates the capacity of Lyon’s images to have a conversation with work by other photographers, and conjure up references from slavery to modern-day xenophobia that speaks to his immediacy and importance.
Jul 1, 2016 · Judged "feeble-minded" as a teen, he was sentenced to death after being convicted of rape, and eventually released, but only after enduring harrowing treatment in jail. His letters and drawings to Lyon are contained in Conversations with the Dead, Lyon's beautiful, brutal photo-book about prison life.
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