Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
DANNY LYON | 'MEMORIES OF THE SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT'
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October 1, 06:02 PM GMT
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25,000 - 35,000 USD
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DANNY LYON
B. 1942
'MEMORIES OF THE SOUTHERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT'
a group of 28 gelatin silver prints, each signed in pencil and with the photographer's 'Bleak Beauty' stamp, dated in pencil, on the reverse, 1962-64, printed in 1996, one from an edition of 10 plus one artist's proof; accompanied by a printed plate list (30)
each image: various sizes to 9 by 13 in. (22.9 by 33 cm.) or the reverse
Danny Lyon: Photo Film 1959-1990 (Berlin, 1991), pp. 12-15, 18-19
In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon hitchhiked south to document the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. As the first staff photographer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon captured the sit-ins, protests, marches, and energy of the movement. Lyon immersed himself in the organization, documented its work, and the resulting photographs made the tumult publicly visible. As Julian Bond, a founding member of SNCC, states, '[t]hese pictures are SNCC. They are history and art, and like the best art, they were/are functional too' (quoted in Danny Lyon: Photo Film, p. 10).