DANNY LYON

Lyons Attended nyc schools in Key Gardens and in Queens

1959 he bought his first camera:Exa SLR in

Munich
University of Chicago: Major in Phylosophy
Born March 16th of 1942, new York an ancient history
1963: Student Non violent Coordinating
American Photographer, Filmmaker ,Writer, and Journalist
Comitee (SNCC)

Photographic style: New journalism

His work: Museums All around the world

founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty
Most recent art show: Whitney Museum of Art in New York
 Books:
The biKERIDERS, coNVErsations with the dead, and Involvement with the civil rights movement
Knave of hearts
 RELEVANT wORK
tExas Prison
Civil rights movement
Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Group

A self-taught photographer, he traveled with

the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club in 1965-
1966 and published his pictures of the club
members as The Bikeriders (1968). Since 1967 he has
been an independent photographer and an
associate at Magnum, and he has made films
since 1969. Lyon has received Guggenheim
Fellowships in photography and filmmaking, and
his work has been included in many major
exhibitions, including Toward a Social Landscape
at the George Eastman House. His first solo
exhibition was held at the Art Institute of
Chicago. In addition to The Bikeriders, Lyon has
published a number of photographic books based
upon his experiences with a group of people or in
a particular place, among them The Movement
(1964), about the Civil Rights movement, and
Conversations with the Dead (1971), a study of life
in Texas prisons.
Personal participation in the lives
of his subjects is vital component
to Danny Lyon's photography. His
subjects often deviate from
societal norms, yet he is dedicated
to communicating their character
and sensibility honestly,
sympathetically, and
nonjudgmentally
The use of the camera
has always been for me
a tool of investigation,
a reason to travel, to
not mind my own
business, and often to
get into trouble. I
wanted to change
history and preserve
humanity. But in the
process I changed
myself and preserved
my own.