Join us for a very rare west coast appearance of this amazing documentary photographer and film maker. He will show two of his films, "Murderers" and "Two Fathers". He will also read from his new book, "Like a Thief's Dream". This event is in conjunction with the a day long symposium at Stanford University on October 20th entitled, “Documentary Photography in the Digital Age”.
We will have copies of "Like a Thief's Dream" available for purchase and signing as well as copies of Mr. Lyon's other works. Due to time constraints, only books purchased at the event will be signed.
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Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn and educated at the University of Chicago. His initiation into the tumultuous world of photojournalism came when he joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee at the height of the Civil Rights movement in 1962. He went on to document the demolition of Lower Manhattan's architectural heritage, motorcycle gangs and stockcar drivers, the brutal existences of prisoners in Texas, and the rural poor of New Mexico and the Andes. As an independent photographer he worked in Latin America, photographing prostitutes in Colombia and experimenting with colour for the first time. Widely published, Lyon has also made extraordinary films, including “Llanito” (1971), “El Mojado” (1973), “Los Niños Abandonados” (1975), and “Little Boy” (1977).
Among his many books are:
Bikeriders (1967)
The Destruction of Lower Manhatttan (1969)
Conversations with the Dead (1971)
Merci Gonaives: A Photographer's Account of Haiti an the February Revolution (1988)
I Like to Eat Right on the Dirt (1989), (collection of Polaroids taken of his children)
Knave of Hearts (1999)
Like a Thief's Dream (2007)
All of 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.
Danny Lyon received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for photography in 1969, and in film making in 1979. He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.
$15.00 at the door. Early registration is strongly recommended. |
