April 26, 2022
Born 1942
ABOUT
Danny Lyon is a photojournalist, writer, and filmmaker. Lyon was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 16, 1942. Lyon attended NYC public schools and in 1959 bought his first camera, an Exa SLR in Munich, Germany during a summer trip, then entered the University of Chicago, where he majored in philosophy and ancient history. In 1963 he became The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) first photographer. He joined the Chicago Outlaws in 1966 and had his first one man show that same year at the Art Institute of Chicago. Danny Lyon’s photographs are in Museums and collections throughout the world. In 2016 and 2017 his retrospective, Message to the Future, was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and the de Young, Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco. In 2022 the Albuquerque Museum of Art will mount a major exhibition, Danny Lyon – Journey West. Danny Lyon is represented by the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City. He is an active blogger at Bleakbeauty.com, his IG is dannylyonphotos. Among his many books are The Bikeriders, The Destruction of Lower Manhattan, Conversations with the Dead, Knave of Hearts, Deep Sea Diver, and The Seventh Dog. Karma published a complete collection of his essays, American Blood, in 2020.
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Danny Lyon was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame at a ceremony November 4th, 2022.
April 26, 2022
1913 – 2009
ABOUT
Helen Levitt (1913-2009) began photographing street scenes in her native city of New York in the late 1930s. Her photographs capture the life of the urban setting and especially of the children playing in the streets. In the mid 1930s, Levitt met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans and she helped Evans make prints for his famous show American Photographs in 1938. She showed him her early black and white photographs of children with their improvised games and chalk drawings and he described the lyrical style of her work as “anti-journalistic”. Helen Levitt took her camera to the city’s poorer neighborhoods, like Spanish Harlem and the Lower East Side, where people treated their streets as their living rooms and where she showed an unerring sense and empathy for the mystery and wry humor of everyday life.
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Helen Levitt was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame at a ceremony November 4th, 2022.
Image: HELEN LEVITT © Film Documents LLC, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
April 26, 2022
Born 1955
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Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet. Burtynsky’s photographs are included in the collections of over 60 major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Tate Modern in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.
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Edward Burtynsky was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame at a ceremony November 4th, 2022.
Edward Burtynsky Portrait © Birgit Kleber.
