Danny Lyon
1942 –
Introduction
Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker.
All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, 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.
After being accepted as the photographer for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement.
He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Lyon twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Rockefeller Fellowship, Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism; and a Lucie Award.
Wikidata identifier
Q5220576
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Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, photographer
ULAN identifier
500055341
Names
Danny Lyon
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23 works
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Gamblers, Gujiao, China
2006 -
Trick or Treat
1985 -
Self Portrait in Mary Frank's Bathroom, NYC
1969 -
Conversation with the Dead
1968 -
Heat Exhaustion, Ellis Prison Farm Texas
1968, printed 1969 -
The Weight Lifters
1968, printed 1969 -
Six Wing Cell Block, Ramsey Unit TDC
1968, printed 1969 -
The Domino Players, The Walls Prison, Texas
1968–1969 -
Diagnostic Unit TDC
1967 -
View south on Cliff Street at its intersection with Beekman
1967 -
The north side of Jay at West and Caroline Streets
1967 -
Untitled (Abandoned Room)
1967 -
82 Beekman Street
1967 -
The Stoplight Cafe, Cicero
1966 -
View West from a Washington Street Rooftop
1966 -
Crossing the Ohio River
1966 -
Scrambles Track, McHenry, Illinois
1965 -
Woman at a Race in Georgia
1964, printed 1969 -
Two SNCC Workers, Selma
1963 -
Two SNCC Workers, Selma
1963 -
Two SNCC Workers, Selma
1963, printed 1964 -
Alabama Highway Patrol, Outside the Bombed 16th Street Baptist Church, September 12, 1963
1963 -
Ruleville (Mississippi, Heidi Dole, swimming pool, Cairo, Illinois, Delta cotton picker, Cairo demonstration)
1963–1988
