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.
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…
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…
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…
