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Nov 17, 2021 · WATCH THE PROGRAM. In Conversation with Danny Lyon, 2021. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. ABOUT DANNY LYON. Danny Lyon (b. 1942, Brooklyn, NY) is a photojournalist, writer, and filmmaker. His willingness to push the boundaries of traditional journalism and fully immerse himself within the lives of his subjects has resulted in some of the ...
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 10, 2020 · On view from October 10 through December 6, 2020, Testament: Danny Lyon Photographs from the 1960s presents a selection of works from two of his early series: The Movement, a series documenting the civil rights movement in the South, taken while Lyon served as staff photographer for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and Conversations with the Dead, a series of ...
Nov 2, 2018 · Danny Lyon once described the writer James Agee as, “a romantic who adored reality,” an epithet equally apt to describe him. Lyon made a name for himself in the 1960s with an embedded style of reportage, capturing a compelling beauty in the people and places he befriended across the country, from student leaders of the civil rights movement to convicts in Texas prisons. Drawn primarily ...
Oct 10, 2020 · This exhibition presents a selection of works by photographer Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942) from two of his early series: The Movement, which documents the civil rights movement in the South, taken while Lyon served as staff photographer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and Conversations with the Dead, a groundbreaking group of photographs from the late 1960s ...
Jul 13, 2016 · In the Whitney’s incoherently hung retrospective, Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, Lyon comes off as a workmanlike documentarian who spent his best years mimicking Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson ...
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In addition to photographs Danny Lyon recorded the stories of the bikers with a tape recorder. Some of the bikers recordings can be heard on the audio guide of the exhibition and also here. The strength transmitted by Lyon's photographs already exists in his first series as the one made in Chicago's neighborhood called Uptown, which gives its name to the series "Uptown" (1965).
