Tag: Danny Lyon

  • Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets – The New York Times

    Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets – The New York Times

    Even From the Desert, Danny Lyon Still Speaks to the Streets The indefatigable photographer on the struggles of getting his new film to the next generation of activists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/danny-lyon-sncc-photography.html The indefatigable photographer on the struggles of getting his new film to the next generation of activists.

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: INTERVIEW: "Doing Life – Nan Goldin with Danny Lyon (1995)"

    Link: Lyon is a journalist, but not by the usual ’90s definition. Whether he was photographing the Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the ’60s or the guerrilla uprising in Mexico in the ’90s, his journalism is not about the surface, the sensational, the soundbite; it is imbued with his respect for the…

  • A Revered Photojournalist’s Chronicle of Lower Manhattan on the Brink of Transformation | The New Yorker

    A Revered Photojournalist’s Chronicle of Lower Manhattan on the Brink of Transformation | The New Yorker

    A Revered Photojournalist’s Chronicle of Lower Manhattan on the Brink of Transformation In the sixties, when sixty acres below Canal Street were slated for clearing, Danny Lyon documented disappearing traces of life dating back to before the Civil War. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-revered-photojournalists-chronicle-of-lower-manhattan-on-the-brink-of-transformation In 1966, after several years spent rambling around the country photographing…

  • A Photograph Never Stands Alone – The New York Times

    A Photograph Never Stands Alone – The New York Times

    A Photograph Never Stands Alone Danny Lyon’s photograph of prisoners toiling in a cotton field can be better understood alongside other images of labor. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/magazine/a-photograph-never-stands-alone.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Danny Lyon’s photograph “The Cotton Pickers” makes me tense. I love and hate it at the same time

  • The Freedom to Be Danny Lyon – The New York Times

    The Freedom to Be Danny Lyon – The New York Times

    The Freedom to Be Danny Lyon A late-career retrospective looks at some four decades of work by Danny Lyon, whose photographs — of the civil rights movement, prisons and a motorcycle gang — consider freedom, or its absence. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/the-freedom-to-be-danny-lyon/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0 “Danny Lyon: Message to the Future” opens on June 17 at the Whitney…

  • An Unfinished Prison Story – The New Yorker

    An Unfinished Prison Story – The New Yorker

    An Unfinished Prison Story Danny Lyon reflects on the decades since the publication of his seminal portrait of prison life. via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-unfinished-prison-story In 1967, Danny Lyon, a young photographer from New York who had spent the beginning of his career documenting the civil-rights movement, was granted permission by the Texas Department of…

  • Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions – NYTimes.com

    Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions – NYTimes.com

    Ferguson Images Evoke Civil Rights Era and Changing Visual Perceptions The photographs of unrest in Ferguson after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer have drawn comparisons to pictures of the Deep South in the 1960s. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/ferguson-images-evoke-civil-rights-era-and-changing-visual-perceptions.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “It didn’t look like America. It looked like Soweto,” Danny Lyon said,…

  • A Guide to the Best Spring/Summer Photo Books

    A Guide to the Best Spring/Summer Photo Books

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2014/04/01/time-special-preview-a-guide-to-the-best-springsummer-photo-books/#1 LightBox presents a special preview of the season’s best photography books, featuring releases as varied as a monograph on Danny Lyon; inspired contemporary work by Richard Renaldi; a poignant reflection on the lingering anxieties of war by Peter van Agtmael; and a re-envisioned…

  • Danny Lyon Criticizes Media; Says How He Would Edit National Geographic Magazine

    Nat Geo Seminar: Danny Lyon Criticizes Media; Says How He Would Edit National Geographic | PDNPulse Photojournalist Danny Lyon delivered a sharp critique of the media, explained the main goal of his career, and reminisced about his work on the civil rights movement, motorcycle gangs and Texas prisoners at a rare public appearance last week.…

  • Matt Eich’s Photographs of Greenwood, Fifty Years After Danny Lyon’s Civil-Rights Pictures

    Matt Eich’s Photographs of Greenwood, Fifty Years After Danny Lyon’s Civil-Rights Pictures

    Down South: Greenwood Revisited via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/10/down-south-greenwood-revisited.html#slide_ss_0=1 Last week, the Virginia-based photographer Matt Eich hosted The New Yorker’s Instagram feed from Greenwood, Mississippi, which he has been documenting for the past several years, for a project about the town’s race and class disparity.

  • Rediscovering the Urban Palette

    Rediscovering the Urban Palette

    Rediscovering the Urban Palette From the earliest hand-tinted postcards to kinetic, digital images, the sidewalks of New York have been muse and model to countless color photographers. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/rediscovering-the-urban-palette/ “New York in Color” is just that – a hefty tome spanning a century of Gotham in photographs, from hand-tinted postcards to tack-sharp and…

  • The End of the Age of Photography by Danny Lyon

    AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “The End of the Age of Photography by Danny Lyon (2007)”: Many years ago I was being driven along central park west in a NYC Taxi and talking with Robert Frank whom I sat beside. When I spoke of using words with photography, texts, as part of what were then called “photography…

  • Danny Lyon, Stubbornly Practicing His Principles of Photography

    From NYTimes.com: At a time when picture magazines were still a holy grail for young photographers, Danny Lyon, self-taught, began his career as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A week after hitchhiking south in 1962 at the age of 20 he was in jail with other protesters in Albany, Ga.,…