Danny Lyon has long been considered one of the most original and influential documentary photographers. He pioneered the style of photographic 'New Journalism' as he rebelled against Life magazine style photographs, instead immersing himself as a participant with his documented subjects. He produced his major bodies of work in this way: living with the Chicago outlaw motorcycle club for The Bikeriders, immersing himself in the Texas prison system for Conversations with the Dead, and documenting the boarded-up lower Manhattan buildings before a major demolition in Destruction of Lower Manhattan. Since this work in the early 1960s and 1970s, Lyon has produced numerous highly collectible photobooks, won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and ten National Endowment for the Arts awards. In this book, for the first time, Lyon has collected his photo essays from over forty years of his remarkable career. A radical and maverick figure, much of this work was considered too controversial for publication at the time of its creation and never reached the American public. Essayscollects together this wide body of work - from sensual images of girls in a barrio of Colombian brothels, to stunning portraits of young local boys in 1965 Chicago, from his most famous bodies of work to never before published projects - to produce a lasting testimony of the time and the people he pictured.
Knave of Heart is a visual memoir in which Danny Lyon recounts his adventures as a photographer. It is illustrated with his color photo-montages and unpublished pictures from his three classic photodocumentary works, The Bikeriders, Conversations with the Dead, and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. Most of the photographic plates are color reproductions of Lyon's photo-montages, hand made, one of a kind works which were years in the making. All are published here for the first time. The autobiographical text tells his family's history beginning with the 1905 revolution in Russia, and covers the convolutions and unrest of 1960's America and the social radicalism of New Mexico in the 1970's, both of which he saw close up and first hand. Lyon's unlikely heros include Hugh Edwards, perhaps the most influential curator of photography of his time, James Ray Renton, convicted cop killer and lifer, Muhammad Ali, who Lyon meets in Miami, and Willie Jaramillo, the star-crossed subject of a number of Lyon's films. In words and photographs Lyon memorializes the friends, family, and adventures of his life.
DANNY LYON, whom ARTS MAGAZINE calls "one of the great photodocumentarians," produced this family album, I LIKE TO EAT RIGHT ON THE DIRT. Contains over 200 beautiful duotones & 4 pages of color collages, in a large oversized 11 x 14 with spiral binding, a result of a lifetime photographing his four children. Writes New York critic Daniel Wolff, "Lyon, who's spent three decades showing American culture in all its glory, greed & heedless beauty, pictures his sons (& daughters) engulfed by it." Bound to be a classic alongside Lyon's now very famous THE BIKERIDERS & CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD. Lyon's photographs are in collections around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, MOMA & the Smithsonian. The book's text tells the fantasy story of two brothers that go back in time with photographs. With original poems & hand written text. "There is for me in Lyon's work a magic that consists of fierce love...family romance, irony & respect for light, spirit & the ancestors. Many of the photographs are visited by magic," writes Ron Green in AFTERIMAGE.
With over 60 marathons and 20 years of business experience, Danny Lyon shares why people create such varying levels of business and personal success. Lyon reveals the secrets of the success "high-flyers," the "turnaround artists," the "comfort zone dwellers," and the "give-ups." No matter where you are in your life right now, Lyon sheds light on how you may be holding yourself back and what it takes to get out of your own way.
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