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.

Leslie, Downtown Knoxville, 1967.

John Lennon and Danny Seymour, The Bowery, New York, 1969.

Untitled (Close Up of Cal on the Road), 1966.

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.

Bob Dylan behind the SNCC office, Greenwood, Mississippi, 1963.

Mary, Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972.

“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.

Haiti, 1987.

Convict With a Bag of Cotton, Texas, 1968.

Occupy demonstration on Broadway, Los Angeles, 2011.

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.

Woman Holds Off a Mob, Atlanta, 1963.

Maricopa County, Arizona, 1977.

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.