Went to the Whitney Museum to see the Danny Lyons exhibit. This is an incredible body of work and I recommend it strongly to anyone with an interest in powerful documentary photography – Danny Lyons is the photographer I wish I could have been.
The show begins with his pictures of the Civil Rights struggles of the ’60s and unfortunately I felt like his photographs, above, could almost have been taken today – hence my morose post title.
A pity I’m on the other side of the world… Googled him as well, though…
I’m sure his work will be exhibited elsewhere. He’s a pretty well known photojournalist of his generation and he’s the type of photographer I aspired to be when I was young, fearless in his crusade for social justice, taking stunning photographs with broad ranges of tonalities.
Adam Isler
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Of what I have seen on Google, I do like his work…
And what a nice discovery, your zenfolio… I’ll take a few more walks there soon 🙂
I googled him. Does he still actively photograph?
I believe so but it’s not urban anymore it’s out in the backwoods where he lives and around the world. There was some digital work at the show from 2013, from China, I think.