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Book - American Blood 

Danny Lyon 

A half-century of social change in America, documented in the writings of Danny Lyon, photographer and author of The Bikeriders and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan

“From the beginning, even before he left the University of Chicago and headed south to take up a position as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Danny Lyon dreamed of being an artist in language as well as in pictures,” writes Randy Kennedy in the introduction to American Blood. In 1961, at the age of 19, for example, Lyon penned a brutally satirical article for a student mimeo magazine... 

Danny Lyon 1964

USA. Chicago, Illinois. 1964. Lyon loading his Triumph TR6 Trophy... 

Danny Lyon 1968

USA. Huntsville, Texas. 1967. The Walls is a walled penitentiary,... 

Danny Lyon 1963

USA. Gadsden, Alabama. 1963. Patrolmen. 

Danny Lyon 2015

USA. 1964. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee brochure,... 

Danny Lyon 1967

USA. Texas. Texas Department of Corrections. 1967. Billy McCune... 

Danny Lyon

USA. 1968. Portrait of Lyon by McCune, 1968. 

Danny Lyon

COLOMBIA. Santa Marta. 1972. Dulany on the balcony of the room... 

Danny Lyon 1967

One of hundreds of letters McCune sent to Lyon over the years.... 

Danny Lyon

USA. Clintondale, New York. 1988. Wanted poster for Jimmy Renton... 

Danny Lyon 1983

GB. London. 1983. Lyon and Hugh Edwards, Hyde Park, 1983. Polaroid... 

Danny Lyon

USA. 1968. Bulletin board in Lyon’s Houston apartment, 1968,... 

Danny Lyon 1963

USA. Atlanta, Georgia. Winter 1963-1964. Taylor Washington yells... 

Danny Lyon

GREECE. Athens. 2000. Detail of 5th century BCE frieze, Parthenon,... 

Danny Lyon

MEXICO. San Cristobal de las Casas. 1995. Mayan woman and child... 

Danny Lyon 1990

Postage stamp design by City University of New York students... 

Danny Lyon 2011

USA. Los Angeles. 2011-2012. Occupy demonstration on Broadway.... 

Danny Lyon 1967

USA. Washington D.C. 1967. Photograph of Lyon and Mark di Suvero... 

Danny Lyon 2014

USA. New Mexico. 2014. Climate marcher outside Albuquerque. 

Danny Lyon 2015

USA. Gatesville, Texas. 1967. Charlie Lowe, sentenced as a teenager... 

Danny Lyon 1962

USA. Birmingham, Alabama. 1963. Jeremiah X, John Lewis, and Julian... 

Danny Lyon

USA. New Mexico. 2011. Dead ponderosa pine, Jemez Mountains,... 

Danny Lyon 2015

USA. Utah. 2015. Green River. 

Danny Lyon

USA. Chicago, Illinois. 1966. Lyon’s friend Skip Richhiemer,... 

Danny Lyon 1962

USA. Nashville, Tennessee. November, 1962. SNCC activists Chuck... 

Danny Lyon

USA. New Mexico. 1974. Eddie, undocumented worker from Chihuahua... 

Danny Lyon 2020

USA. Arkansas. Early mug shot of “Dinker” Cassel. Cassell died... 

Danny Lyon 1966

USA. Gatesville, Texas. Mug shot of James Ray Renton. Lyon was... 

Danny Lyon 1963

USA. Selma, Alabama. October 7, 1963. The Student Nonviolent... 

Danny Lyon

USA. 1970. Lyon on the road, 1970, moving from Texas to New Mexico.... 

Danny Lyon 2011

USA. NYC. November 4, 2011. Two anarchists at the Occupy Wall... 

Danny Lyon 2020

USA. Paducah, Kentucky. 2020. Hugh Edwards, seated, probably... 

Danny Lyon 1990

USA. Arkansas. 1990. Album page of color Polaroids, showing Harold... 

Danny Lyon 2000

MEXICO. Chiapas. 1995. Women in the market, San Cristobal de... 

Danny Lyon 1972

COLOMBIA. Santa Marta. 1972. Danny with Bastalla, Harris with... 

Danny Lyon 2012

USA. New York City. Union Square. 2012. Chuck Kelton's darkroom... 

Danny Lyon 2014

USA. Bernalillo, New Mexico. 2011. Yvonne at Lupe's Cafe. 

Danny Lyon 2011

USA. "Oma, these are my children," Rebecca Lyon, self-portrait... 

Danny Lyon 2011

USA. Oakland. November 4, 2011. Occupy Oakland protestors. 

Danny Lyon 2017

USA. 2017. Lyon. 

Danny Lyon 1965

USA. Illinois. Chicago. Hyde Park. June 1965. Letter from Hugh... 

Danny Lyon

USA. Hyde Park, Chicago. 1985. Hugh Edwards, Hyde Park, Chicago,... 

Danny Lyon

COLOMBIA. Santa Marta. 1974. Frames from Lyon’s first long film,... 

Danny Lyon 2020

USA. Perry, Utah. 1944. Page from album made in Perry, Utah,... 

Danny Lyon 2020

USA. New York, New York. 1934. A picture made by Dr. Ernst Lyon... 

Danny Lyon 1986

HAITI. 1986/1987. 

Danny Lyon

USA. Texas. 1968. Card from Billy McCune, written in his isolation... 

Danny Lyon

USA. Knoxville, Tennessee. 1967. Lyon’s diary entry, September,... 

Danny Lyon

GERMANY. 1959. In the summer of 1959 Lyon visited Europe with... 

Danny Lyon 1965

USA. 1965. At one time, selfies smelled of hypo. Lyon with Susan... 

Danny Lyon

USA. Prison album made by Jimmy Renton composed of photos of... 

Danny Lyon 1968

USA. Texas. 1968. Bill Sander's tattoo photographs, Washington... 

Danny Lyon 1965

USA. McHenry, Illinois. 1965. Scrambles track. 

Danny Lyon 1968

USA. Texas. Dallas. 1968. Larry McMurtry driving to a book sale.... 

Danny Lyon 1979

USA. 1979. This is a transcript of a statement that Lyon wrote... 

Danny Lyon 1961

FRANCE. Oradour-sur-Glane. 1961. Lyon visited at age seventeen.... 

Danny Lyon

USA. 1994. Lyon, photographed by his son, Raphael. 

Danny Lyon

USA. Lincoln, New Mexico. 2017. Noah Lyon. 

Danny Lyon 1969

USA. New Mexico. 1969. Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) and Robert Frank... 

Danny Lyon 2020

Still from 8mm film shot by Dr. Ernst Lyon of his son, Danny,... 

Danny Lyon 1965

USA. Chicago, Illinois. 1965. Lyon in the alley behind his Hyde... 
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