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The entire body of Danny Lyon 16mm film work is now live and can be viewed on Vimeo. The sixties meets the twenty first century.

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All films are available on DVD. Please follow the links to purchase.

Other sources for some of these films are the Public Library in Sante Fe, New Mexico, the film collection of MOMA in NYC, Facets Video in Chicago, the Donnell Public Library in NYC, Kim’s Video in NYC and the film collection at Paris Audio Visual (Museum de la Photographie — MEP) in Paris.

Born to Film and Two Fathers

Los Niños Abandonados

Media Man

Soc. Sci. 127

Willie

Shadowman and Nothing

Five Days

Murderers

El Mojado

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This generation born in war, born in the jail cells of the South, born at the Pentagon march, watches in disbelief as the country is paved over, malls replacing corn fields, synthetic food replacing corn, cash replacing value. What has become of us? Is the country brain dead? Is this what we have done with our freedom? Our greatest surviving value is greed. Is that what our legacy will be? What shall we tell the children?
The 16mm Films of Danny Lyon, preserved as high resolution scans

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 3^rd, 2016.

These are great digital copies of some of the best non-fiction films of the seventies and eighties, exclusively available from Bleak Beauty.

The entire body of Danny Lyon 16mm film work can also be streamed on Vimeo. The sixties meets the twenty first century.
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Born to Film / Two Fathers
Dear Mark
El Otro Lado
Little Boy
Llanito
Los Niños Abandonados
Media Man
Soc. Sci. 127
Willie

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The 16mm Films of Danny Lyon, preserved as high resolution scans

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