Wed 9/5 @ 6:30PM
Photographer Danny Lyon is now 76 and has created many important bodies of work in a photojournalistic style, covering things such as the civil rights movement, inmates in Texas prisons and motorcycle clubs. And in 1967, he was fortunate to be able to spend time extensively documenting an area of lower Manhattan that was being demolished for redevelopment, creating a visual document similar to Eugene Atget’s on a vanishing Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Those photos became a book The Destruction of Lower Manhattan, published in 2005. And photos from that book are currently on display in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s photography gallery through Sun 10/7.
He’ll be at the museum to sit down for a conversation with Curator of Photography Barbara Tannenbaum in the recital hall. It’s free, but you should make a reservation since space is limited.
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