Lyon, Danny

1963, Danny Lyon joined the Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As their sta

photographer he made photographs that proved to

be an important historical record of the Southern

Civil Rights Movement. Lyon subsequently gained

broad recognition as a photographer, filmmaker, and

writer. Working in the style called New Journalism,

which involved immersing himself and becoming a

participant in a given subject, Lyon photographed

motorcyclists in the Midwest and documented life

within the Texas prison syst...