Tag: Nathan Lyons

Nathan Lyons: An Irresistible Passion for Photography – The New York Times

Nathan Lyons: An Irresistible Passion for Photography

Nathan Lyons worked outside mainstream aesthetics, eschewing pomposity, while capturing wonderment amid everyday banality.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/lens/nathan-lyons-an-irresistible-passion-for-photography.html

Over the course of six decades, Nathan Lyons’s innovations as a curator, teacher, collector, publisher and writer shaped the course of photography.

January 16, 2019
Tribute to Nathan Lyons, 1930-2016 – The Eye of Photography

Tribute to Nathan Lyons, 1930-2016

A generation of photography pillars is frittering away. On Wednesday August 31st 2016, Nathan Lyons (1930-2016), co-founder of the Society for Photographic education (1962 and 1963), assistant director at the George Eastman House (until 1969), and mostly known as the founder and director of Visual Studies Workshop and its international magazine, Afterimage, (1969-2001) passed away in Rochester NY.

September 9, 2016
Death of Nathan Lyons ( 1930 – 2016 ) – The Eye of Photography

Death of Nathan Lyons ( 1930 – 2016 )

A Nathan Lyons comes along once in a generation. He has left his mark on so many. He will be missed. All of us in the photographic family extend our condolences to Joan Lyons, his devoted wife and fellow artist, and his family, that goes way beyond blood lines.

September 5, 2016
Making Metaphors From Photos – NYTimes.com

Making Metaphors From Photos

Inspired by his poetic writings, Nathan Lyons combines two images that take on a third, metaphorical, meaning.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/making-metaphors-from-photos/

“Things occur,” Nathan Lyons said, referring to how he starts making photographs, which has not changed for 60 years. “I simply collect images that I respond to, there’s no script to what I’m doing, it’s really based on my interaction with the things that I see that intrigue me or interest me or question me.”

December 12, 2014