Danny Lyon
dal 10/1/2014 al 14/2/2014
Segnalato da
10/1/2014
Danny Lyon
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Murals and montages. The exhibition highlights a cross-section of his celebrated career of the past 50 years
Murals and montages. Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to exhibit thirteen limited edition 30 x 40 inch enlargement prints by Danny Lyon. The exhibition highlights a cross-section of his celebrated career of the past fifty years and it is the first time his work is being presented in this mural size. Danny Lyon is renowned for his documentary photographs depicting the outer fringes of society: the poor, the outsiders, the underdogs, the outlaws. Continuing in the photographic tradition of Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, he embraced the medium's historical concern with social justice and combined his passion for activism with an instinctual talent behind the camera. In the 'New Journalism' style, he immersed himself in many of the communities he documented - the Civil Rights movement, motorcycle gangs in Chicago, prisoners in Texas and poor urban communities across the Americas. By earning his subjects' trust and turning his empathetic lens on their lives, he has captured their humanity in unsentimental images embued with dignity, respect and often a formal elegance. Reception for the artist on Saturday, January 11th from 2 - 4 pm.