1. Danny Lyon was born on March 16,1942 and is an American photographer and filmmaker.
24 Facts About Danny Lyon
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Danny Lyon is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty.
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Danny Lyon has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the M H de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.
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Danny Lyon twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Rockefeller Fellowship, Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism; and a Lucie Award.
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Danny Lyon was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York and is the son of Russian-Jewish mother Rebecca Henkin and German-Jewish father Dr Ernst Fredrick Danny Lyon.
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Danny Lyon was raised in Kew Gardens, Queens, and went on to study history and philosophy at the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963.
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Danny Lyon began his involvement in the civil rights movement in 1962 when he hitch-hiked to Cairo, Illinois during a summer break after his junior year at the University of Chicago.
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Danny Lyon was inspired by a speech John Lewis had given at a church on his first day in Cairo.
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Soon a truck came, it went through the crowd in an attempt to break it up, a young black girl was hit by the truck and Danny Lyon knew that he wanted to be a part of the movement.
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Danny Lyon left town in order to keep all the pictures he had taken safe from being confiscated.
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In 1963 Danny Lyon returned, but the SNCC was reluctant to bring him aboard as their photographer.
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One job Danny Lyon participated in was getting a picture of some high-school girls who were in prison at the Leesburg Stockade without any charges against them.
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Danny Lyon hid in the back of a car while someone else drove him to the prison, and the young man who drove distracted the guards while Lyon snuck in the back to get the photo.
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Danny Lyon's pictures appeared in The Movement: documentary of a struggle for equality, a documentary book about the Civil Rights Movement in the southern region of the United States.
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Danny Lyon's first was a study of outlaw motorcyclists in the collection The Bikeriders, where Lyon photographed, traveled with and shared the lifestyle of bikers in the American Midwest from 1963 to 1967.
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Danny Lyon was a full-fledged member of the Outlaws between 1966 and 1967.
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In 1969, when Danny Lyon returned from his work in Texas to New York City, and had no place to live, the photographer Robert Frank, famous by then for his 1958 book The Americans, took him in.
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Danny Lyon had met Frank two years earlier, at the end of a Happening that Danny Lyon was part of, in New York City.
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Danny Lyon lived with the Frank family for six months in the city, in an apartment on West 86th St.
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All of Danny Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed, and is a participant, of the documented subject.
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Danny Lyon is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty.
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Danny Lyon was greatly encouraged in his photography by curator of the Art Institute of Chicago Hugh Edwards, who gave Lyon two solo exhibits as a young man.
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Also a filmmaker and writer, Danny Lyon's films and videos include Los Ninos Abandonados, Born to Film, Willie, and Murderers.
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Danny Lyon has published the non-fiction book Like A Thief's Dream.