Name/Title
DANNY LYON - Weight Lifters, Ramsey Unit, State Prison, TX, 1968Description
Artist: DANNY LYON
• Title: Weight Lifters, Ramsey Unit, Texas, 1968
• Medium: Photo Litho, 1991, Germany
• Image Dimensions: 8.45×5.6"
• Description: Heat Wax Mounted on 8.5×11" Conservation Board
Danny Lyon (1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in with, and is a participant of, the documented subject. After being accepted as the photographer for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement. He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.Photograph Details
Type of Photograph
Photo-lithographAcquisition
Acquisition Method
AuctionAmount Paid
$44.00Date
May 12, 2021Acquired From
Jasper52Create Date
June 5, 2024Update Date
September 16, 2024