Climate March, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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New commentary on The Bikeriders
http://www.guernicamag.com/art/outlaws-territory/ Out in Guernica Magazine. Outlaw’s Territory by Rebecca Bengal – Disregarding Hunter S. Thompson’s advice, Danny Lyon set off to “record and glorify the life of the American bikerider.”
The Great Climate March
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was a less than exciting name also. No one could say it. No one could remember it. But the SNCC has gone down in history as one of our great moments, and one of the great grass routes organizing groups in history. So when the Great Climate Marchers (march@climatemarch.org) arrived … Continue reading
The Guardian of London review’s “Like A Thief’s Dream”
Sean O’Hagan of the Guardian in London and written a fine piece on “Like A Thief’s Dream”, which of course has been way under anyone’s radar in Amerika. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/11/danny-lyon-thiefs-dream-texas O’Hagan did this in January of 2011 after a friend handed him the book at a party. Since the book was dumped by the original publishers (as was … Continue reading
Utube video of Julian Bond and Danny Lyon
This is the NG edit of a portion of Lyon’s and Bond’s discussion at the National Geographic. It was edited to show sections of their discussion of Lyon’s work for the SNCC when in 1963 Lyon and Bond worked in the same Atlanta SNCC office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjXHTMdjt9M
Lyon imagines how he would edit the National Geographic Magazine
What follows is the transcript of the talk delivered to a standing room audience of six hundred photographers, journalists and editors on January 9, 2014 at the National Geographic in Washington DC. Lyon and Julian Bond then shared the stage while sixty images were shown. “I wanted to talk a bit about Norman Mailer, … Continue reading
Danny Lyon reviews, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity by Mike Brodie.
“Great photography touches the soul. In 2003, Mike Brodie was a teenager in Pensacola, Florida, living with his mother; his father was far off in Arizona, doing ten years in prison.
Young Mike and his friend Savannah figured out the simple scam” ….
American Heros
Martin Luther King – Life without Parole John Lewis – Three life sentences Julian Bond – Thirty years, isolation unit Malcolm X – Death James Forman – Fifty years, Conspiracy Diane Nash – Life Fannie Lou Hammer – Twenty-Five years Bradley Manning – Forty years, isolation Edward Snowden – Death, changed to Life without Parole, … Continue reading
Definitions of Democracy, part Two
The purpose of Democracy is Democracy In part One of this thought, posted a couple years ago, the streets of NYC were praised as among the highest examples of Democracy in the history of man. A few weeks after, having nothing to do with the blog, Occupy moved into Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. (An … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Robert Frank
Robert Frank spoke no english when in 1947 he landed in New York City at the age of twenty three, and sitting at lunch counters on Broadway would order pies, which he could see on display on the counter, by pointing at them. By 1959 he would publish a book of photographs, first in France, … Continue reading
There goes New York
The sea level was supposed to rise “in a hundred years”. Then on Monday it happened. Manhattan island had a world record thirteen feet of water above the high tide level come up and over the southern wall into Battery Park, a few hundred yards from the headquarters of Goldman Sachs. Manhattan island, the Athens … Continue reading
The End of the Age of Photography – The Conclusion
It is five years since The End of the Age of Photography first appeared on bleakbeauty.com on Oct 20, 2007. It was also delivered as at a symposium at Stanford University, where Muybridge created much of his Animals in Motion. This is the Fourth and final installment. The End of the Age of Photography – … Continue reading
Juan’s Children Stay in Amerika
It is not often that we awake to good news from our government. Like Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclamation, President Obama has given protection from deportation to a million young immigrants inside our borders, most of them Mexicans. And he did it from within a government, that other than killing people and collecting taxes, hasn’t … Continue reading
Juan Stays Home
“I am glad juans mom died . I hope he dies in beanerville. You too wetback asskisser.” Here is a comment this blog just received. It is almost poetic, as if these were lines in a play by Jean Genet, perhaps delivered by a small white prisoner, handcuffed in his cell, as he were about … Continue reading
Remarkable Article “Worlds to Conquer: The Photography of Danny Lyon” by Kim Beil Published In Summer Photographer’s Forum
This article touches on many things including the Menil show and Deep Sea Diver. Kim Beil is a new young writer and I thought you would enjoy seeing it.
PFMAY12_Danny_Lyon (pdf, 640k)
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