A Memory of Robert Frank
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/27/when-fathers-die-remembering-robert-frank/
In the NYR Daily. Written in a cabin in Maine upon hearing of Robert’s death.
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/09/27/when-fathers-die-remembering-robert-frank/
In the NYR Daily. Written in a cabin in Maine upon hearing of Robert’s death.
Filed under Essays
After his ground breaking work as a photojournalist in the 1960’s, Danny Lyon turned to films, making a series of non-fiction films in the 1970’s and 1980’s. With the recent recognition of the 2016 de Young/Whitney retrospective, funds were provided to preserve these remarkable 16mm films. High resolution digital scans were made from the original A&B negative rolls under the close supervision of the artist. The DVD covers themselves, first made for VHS tapes, have been recognized for their power and realism, and are on display at the San Francisco Museum of Art show which opened November 3rd, 2016.
Interested in screening films by Danny Lyon? For booking inquiries please contact: Rebecca Lyon rlyon(a)chicagofilmsociety(dot)org
16mm prints of certain films are available for rental, please contact Anthology Film Archives for more information
The entire body of Danny Lyon 16mm film work can also be streamed on Vimeo. The sixties meets the twenty first century.
View Bleak Beauty Films on Vimeo
Thank you Danny for sharing about your life with Robert Frank. I appreciate these humanizing memories about both you and Robert Frank, two photographer artists whose work I love and have found inspirational.
Wishing you all the very best,
Builder Builder Levy http://www.builderlevy.com
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Author of 4 books: Images of Appalachian Coalfields Builder Levy Photographer Appalachia USA Humanity in the Streets New York City 1960s-1980s