“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.”
This is from “Stubbornly Practicing His Principle of Photography,” a wonderful article by Randy Kennedy published in The New York Times on April 24. It’s a great read for anyone interested in documentary photography, photojournalism, consciousness photography or the name Kennedy seems to favor for Danny Lyon’s work: New Journalism. As Kennedy explains: Continue reading “Who Is the Great Danny Lyon?”