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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > USA > Danny Lyon
“Clifford Vaughs, SNCC photographer, is arrested by the National Guard.” 1964.
The Menil Collection, Houston, gift of Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil.
Photograph: Danny Lyon Magnum Photos
Houston’s Young Curators Look at Culture and Environment By Jonathan Blaustein NYT May. 17, 2016
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/
Shakedown at Ellis, Texas: ‘lingering sense of sadness’.
Photograph: © Danny Lyon
Conversations With the Dead review – 60s prison life in the US Nearly 50 years on, Danny Lyon’s images of Texas prisoners retain their visceral power G Tuesday 20 October 2015 07.30 BST Last modified on Tuesday 20 October 2015 07.32 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/20/
Kathy. Uptown, Chicago. 1965.
Photograph: Danny Lyon Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery
The Freedom to Be Danny Lyon By Jonathan Blaustein NYT Jun. 13, 2016
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/
Danny Lyon
Among a group of revolutionaries whose work rose to prominence in the late 1960s and ’70s and transformed the nature of documentary photography — a group that includes friends and colleagues of Mr. Lyon’s like Mary Ellen Mark and Larry Clark — the idea of conscience has been imbedded more deeply in Mr. Lyon’s photographs than in those of all but a few of his contemporaries.
At a time when picture magazines were still a holy grail for young photographers, Mr. Lyon, self-taught, began his career as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
A week after hitchhiking south in 1962 at the age of 20 he was in jail with other protesters in Albany, Ga., next to the cell of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
And Mr. Lyon’s first book, the classic “Bikeriders,” made after spending more than two years as a member of the Outlaws motorcycle gang, was not just a pioneering example of New Journalism but, as he later described it, an attempt “to destroy Life magazine” and what he saw as its anodyne vision of American life.
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July - August 1963
Americus, Ga.
Leesburg Stockade Stolen Girls
This photo of the group known as the Leesburg Stockade Stolen Girls was taken by Danny Lyons, a former SNCC photographer.
It helped confirm the girls' location to their parents and civil rights activists.
Photograoh: Danny Lyon Magnum Photos
They marched for desegregation — then they disappeared for 45 days NPR July 19, 2023 4:29 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/
In the early 1960s, civil rights protests were picking up speed across the country.
Sometimes, protest marches included children as young as 12 years old.
Usually, children who were arrested at protests were bailed out by activist groups, or eventually released to their parents.
But on July 19, 1963, during a march to desegregate a theater in Americus, Ga., a group of Black girls was arrested — and for the rest of the summer, their parents had no idea where they were.
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Along with at least 13 other girls, Westbrook-Griffin was transported to a single cell of the Leesburg Stockade — an abandoned, Civil-War-era building more than 20 miles away from Americus.
For the next 45 days, the girls would be subject to squalid living conditions.
The stockade lacked running water, plumbing and beds.
As the weeks passed, conditions only deteriorated.
(...)
Throughout July and August, SNCC activists went from jail to jail in search of the missing girls.
At one of SNCC's mass meetings, someone mentioned a rumor that the girls were being held in the old Leesburg Stockade.
Danny Lyon was a photographer for SNCC at the time.
"James Foreman, who was executive secretary, said to go down and check it out," Lyon told Radio Diaries.
Lyon drove to the Leesburg Stockade after dark.
There, he took clandestine pictures of the girls and their living conditions through bars of the building.
Lyon's photos confirmed the girls' location to parents and activists, providing leverage as they fought with authorities for the girls' return.
Finally, on Sept. 1 – 45 days after they were taken – the police released the girls to their parents.
Danny Lyon's photos appeared in Jet magazine in late September and in a special issue of SNCC's The Student Voice newspaper in 1964.
Westbrook-Griffin and the other girls were never formally charged after the march.
They also weren't given a reason for why they were held in the stockade so long.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/
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