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FEW PICTURES CAPTURE the full-throttle thrill of youthful rebellion as well as Danny Lyon’s 1966 photograph of a lone motorcyclist speeding across a bridge over the Ohio River. Helmetless, he looks back over his shoulder, his hair streaming behind, his leather jacket boldly emblazoned with a skull and crossbones and his gang’s name: OUTLAWS.
On the occasion of the publication of American Blood: Danny Lyon, Selected Writings, 1961-2020 and the completion of a new feature-length film, ‘SNCC’, about the early days of the Southern civil rights movement, the photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon recently spoke with writer and editor Randy Kennedy for a talk about his life and work.
Oct 25, 2016 · With decades of distinguished work behind him, Danny Lyon has received numerous awards for the strength of his works and is an associate of the prestigious Magnum photographic cooperative.
Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) [1] is an American photographer [2] and filmmaker. [3] All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, [4] meaning that the photographer has become immersed in, and is a participant of, the documented subject. He is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty.
1963: Scenes of young African-American protestors applauding, one with his arm raised toward the sky; racial conflict and police brutality. Danny Lyon, the son of Jewish immigrants, was just twenty-one years old and a student at the University of Chicago when he fearlessly took these photographs of a protest that made history: the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Jan 20, 2014 · This post was originally published January 20, 2014. We’re resurfacing it now to honor Julian Bond in the wake of his death on August 15, 2015.—The Proof Team Photographer and filmmaker Danny ...
Aug 5, 2020 · In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon, a young history student from the University of Chicago, hitchhiked 390 miles south to Cairo, Illinois, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the youth wing of the civil rights movement. Fired by the romantic spirit of the Beat poets, he took his camera with him – and immediately found himself documenting one of the most important ...
