Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • In celebration of Danny Lyon’s acclaimed retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, <a href="http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2016-09-09_danny-lyon/"target="external">Edwynn Houk Gallery</a> presents Journey, a selection of rare vintage prints from the artist’s personal collection. Spanning his remarkable career from one of his earliest photographs made in the desert of Arizona in 1962 to his newest collage made in a Mayan village in Belize in 2016, the exhibition examines a cross-section of Lyon’s important and varied body of work.Racer, Schererville, Indiana, 1965.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Leslie, Downtown Knoxville, 1967.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • John Lennon and Danny Seymour, The Bowery, New York, 1969.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Untitled (Close Up of Cal on the Road), 1966.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Continuing in the tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, Lyon forged a new style of documentary photography, described as “New Journalism,” where the photographer immerses himself in his subject’s world. Pictured: Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Bob Dylan behind the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Mary, Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • “You put a camera in my hand,” Danny explained, “I want to get close to people. Not just physically close, emotionally close, all of it.” In the process, he has made several iconic bodies of work, which have not only pictured recent history but helped to shape it. Here: Abernathy, Shuttlesworth (SCLC), King and Wilkinson (NAACP), 1963.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Haiti, 1987.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Convict With a Bag of Cotton, Texas, 1968.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Occupy demonstration on Broadway, Los Angeles, 2011.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • In 1968, Lyon published The Bikeriders, a seminal work of modern photojournalism. This landmark collection of photographs and interviews documents the four-year period Lyon spent on the road with members of a motorcycle club known as the Chicago Outlaws. Photographed between 1963 and 1967, Lyon describes the series as "an attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider.” Pictured: Crossing the Ohio River, Louisville, 1966.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Woman Holds Off a Mob, Atlanta, 1963.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Maricopa County, Arizona, 1977.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
  • Delta, 1964. Danny Lyon retrospective: Message to the Future, curated by Julian Cox, is on view at the <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/DannyLyonMessageToTheFuture"target="external">Whitney Museum</a> in New York from June 17 to Sept.25, 2016.
    Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York