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Apr 16, 2014 · Detroit, Michigan, 1965. Renegade’s funeral. Photo by Danny Lyon/Magnum. The riders are painted as unforgiving and brutal. Over the course of the book, some members die on the road, some...
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.
Oct 9, 2015 · The resulting images, a poignant, personal look at the daily lives of the inmates, resulted in a book, Conversations With the Dead, that was first published in 1971; after nearly 45 years out of...
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.
Nov 13, 2023 · Danny Lyon: 100 Photographs presents 118 Danny Lyon works from his most notable and famous series including his work in six Texas prisons and time with American Midwest bikeriders in the late 1960s—respectively Conversations with the Dead and The Bikeriders.
Oct 25, 2016 · 25 October 2016. In a photographic career that included riding with biker gangs and the casual brutalities of the American penal system, Danny Lyon documented ordinary people in extraordinary...
Jun 21, 2024 · A new film dramatizes the story of a motorcycle club chronicled by Lyon in the 1960s, offering a tribute to the outlaw spirit. This still from The Bikeriders is a recreation of Danny Lyon's...
