Danny Lyon: Message to the Future (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Yale))

by Julian Cox, Elisabeth Sussman, Alexander Nemerov, Danica Willard Sachs, Ed Halter, and Alan Rinzler

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The first comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagement

Coming of age in the 1960s, the photographer Danny Lyon (b. 1942) distinguished himself with work that emphasized intimate social engagement. In 1962 Lyon traveled to the segregated South to photograph the civil rights movement. Subsequent projects on biker culture, the demolition and redevelopment of lower Manhattan, and the Texas prison system, and more recently on the Occupy movement and the vanishing culture in China’s booming Shanxi Province, share Lyon’s signature immersive approach and his commitment to social and political issues that concern those on the margins of society. Lyon’s photography is paralleled by his work as a filmmaker and a writer.
 
Danny Lyon: Message to the Future is the first in-depth examination of this leading figure in American photography and film, and the first publication to present his influential bodies of work in all media in their full context. Lead essayists Julian Cox and Elisabeth Sussman provide an account of Lyon’s five-decade career. Alexander Nemerov writes about Lyon’s work in Knoxville, Tennessee; Ed Halter assesses the artist’s films; Danica Willard Sachs evaluates his photomontages; and Julian Cox interviews Alan Rinzler about his role in publishing Lyon’s earliest works. With extensive back matter and illustrations, this publication will be the most comprehensive account of this influential artist’s work.

Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco


Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art
(06/17/16–09/25/16)

de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(11/05/16–03/12/17)

Fotomuseum Winterthur
(05/20/17–08/27/17)

C/O Berlin Foundation
(09/15/17–12/10/17)

  • ISBN10 0300218834
  • ISBN13 9780300218831
  • Publish Date 7 June 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press