Danny Lyon (American b. 1942)
Uptown, Chicago, 1965
Gelatin silver print, printed 1991
From Uptown Series
Signed, titled, dated & annotated "1 of 4" in pencil on verso; “Bleak Beauty” stamp also on verso
Image size: 9 x 13 1/4 inches
Paper size: 11 x 14 inches
Mat size: 16 x 20 inches
Provenance: Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles; The Artist
Condition: Excellent
Retail: $7000
As of January 1, 2017: Retail prices for modern prints by Danny Lyon: $7000 11x14s and $8500 16x20s.
Representation:
Danny Lyon is represented by Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York; Terry Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, AZ; Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; and Magnum Photos.
BIO:
Danny
Lyon (American, b. 1942 Brooklyn, NY): His early documentary career was established and
defined by his gritty photographer-as-participant approach. His first book, The
Movement (1964), evolved from his experiences as a staff photographer for the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement. In
the Bikeriders series (1968), Lyon rode and lived with the bikers he
photographed. Lyon's work belies the standard detachment of documentary
humanism and objectivism in favor of a more complicated subjective involvement.
Danny Lyon's photojournalistic style is marked by its staunch pursuit of the unembellished moment. Clearing Land, Ellis Unit, Texas, a picture of a prison work gang, is part of a series on prison life that later became the book “Conversations with the Dead” (1971). Continuing his interest in the communities that develop – voluntarily or otherwise – on the outskirts of mainstream society, Lyon photographed the daily routine and rituals that evolve in prison and within which issues of race, masculinity, and class coalesce.