Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement 


 
Danny Lyon was the SNCC photographer who covered many of the major Freedom Movement campaigns and projects. This is his narrative and a collection of some of the most moving and powerful images to come out of the Movement.

 
   


 
For four years in the 1960s, Danny Lyon was a member of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. He emerged with one of the defining photo-essays of the 1960s, which seared motorcycle counterculture into the American psyche, and helped inspire the film Easy Rider.
© Photograph by Danny Lyon
     

 
Following the publication of his book "Son of Bitch," he became famous as a maker of funny pictures where dogs play the starring role, In his vast range of sentiment, and in his easygoing but precise mastery of the abstract elements of composition, Elliott Erwitt is an acute observer of the canine world.
 
   

 
Photographer, poet, novelist, composer, musician and filmmaker, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) spent a lifetime shattering barriers in his pursuit of truth, beauty, social justice and artistic expression.
     

 

Bill Owens' slyly subversive photo-essay on tract-home culture and the American Dream was an instant classic when it was first published in 1972, and has never looked fresher nor more relevant than it does today.