Issue 2 of Notebook magazine includes an original essay by Lyon, accompanied by a piece about the self-distribution of his works. The issue is currently available in select stores around the world.In September 1962, Danny Lyon, a history and philosophy student at the University of Chicago, flew to Jackson, Mississippi to photograph voter registration workers for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (Sncc). By 1963, Lyon was working as Sncc’s in-house photographer, and for the next two-plus years he would document nearly every major moment of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, including the March on Washington and historic demonstrations led by John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr., among others. If you’ve seen a photo from this era in a newspaper, magazine, or history book, there’s a good chance it was taken by Lyon.But while the artist’s contemporaneous photos of an outlaw Chicago motorcycle gang and, later, Texas...
- 2/17/2023
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