Danny Lyon Digital Chromogenic Photograph and Signed Photography Book

Item Details

Danny Lyon (American, born 1942)
The Line, Ferguson Unit, Texas Department of Corrections. USA. 1968, circa 2000
Digital Chromogenic Print
Signed on the verso
Published by Magnum Photos with label to the verso
Includes signed photography book Conversation with the Dead by Danny Lyon

Self-taught photographer has been an independent photographer and an associate at Magnum since 1967. He received his BA in History from the University of Chicago where he also served as a staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He has published several photographic books such as The Movement (1964) centered around the Civil Rights movement, The Bikeriders (1968) for which he traveled with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club, and Conversation with the Dead (1971) which was a study of Texas prisons. Lyons received Guggenheim Fellowships in both photography and filmmaking. His work has been exhibited and collected by several institutions, including the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others.

Condition

- some abrasions to the cover; minimal curling to the book pages.

Dimensions

- measures the book; photograph measures 6" W x 6" H.

Item #

ITMGF28711