Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
“Lyon was the Robert Capa of the Movement. Many of his pictures remain the stock images of the period . . . Much of their outstanding achievement has been forgotten. Perhaps Danny Lyon's fine book can help to bring their accomplishment into the mainstream history of the 1960s.”
— Joseph Schwartz, London Times Literary Supplement, March 1993
“Danny Lyon's self-described propaganda became journalism, then poster art and now history; the photographer himself -- like Mathew Brady, whom he admired -- has become a historian with a camera.”
— Robin Reisig, The New York Times Book Review, Feb. 1993
March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Demonstrations at an “all-white” swimming pool in Cairo, Illinois, 1962
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy are escorted back to jail in Albany, 1962
Entrance to the City Café, 1963
Sheriff Jim Clark arrests two demonstrators who displayed placards on the steps of the federal building in Selma, 1963
After giving a concert in a cotton field in Greenwood, Bob Dylan plays behind the SNCC office, 1963
Clifford Vaughs, another SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard, 1964
Clarksdale, Mississippi, police pose for a photograph as ministers from the National Council of Churches march to the local church, 1963
Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany, Georgia, 1962
Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where four fourteen-year-old girls were killed by a KKK bomb, 1963
John Lewis in Nashville, 1963
© Danny Lyon/ Magnum Photos
A giant of post-War documentary photography and film, Brooklyn, New York-native Danny Lyon helped define a mode of photojournalism in which the picture-maker is deeply and personally embedded in his subject matter. A self-taught photographer and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Lyon began his photographic career in the early 1960s as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a national group of college students who joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions documenting the Civil Rights Movement. The photographs were published in The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and later in Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Lyon’s own memoir of his years working for the SNCC.
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Number of photographs: 57
Frame sizes: 16x20 (47) and 20x24 (10)
Price: $4500 for eight weeks plus shipping and insurance. Additional weeks cost 10 percent per week.
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