UNM Art Museum Presents ‘End of the Age of Photography’

The UNM Art Museum presents Danny Lyon on “The End of the Age of Pho­tog­ra­phy,” part of 2012 Dis­tin­guished Lec­ture Series, on Tues­day, Feb. 21, 5:30–6:30 p.m. A book sign­ing fea­tur­ing Lyon’s “Knave of Hearts” fol­lows the lec­ture. The free event is co-sponsored by the UNM Art Museum and the Depart­ment of Art and Art History.

Lyon is rec­og­nized as one of the most orig­i­nal and influ­en­tial pho­tog­ra­phers in Amer­ica. A pio­neer of the pho­to­graphic genre of New Jour­nal­ism, Lyon works by immers­ing him­self along­side the life of his sub­jects. In this way, he has pro­duced major bod­ies of work in situ includ­ing the series, “The Bik­erid­ers” (1967), in which he became a mem­ber of the Chicago Out­laws Motor­cy­cle club, and receiv­ing unprece­dented access to death-row inmates at the Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas, he recorded the envi­rons of “lif­ers,” in “Con­ver­sa­tions with the Dead” (1971). His cur­rent project cen­ters on “Occupy” ral­lies in Oak­land, New York and Albuquerque.

Over the last 40 years, Lyon cre­ated numer­ous bod­ies of ground­break­ing work, highly col­lectible photo books and films. His pho­tog­ra­phy has been fea­tured in solo exhi­bi­tions at the Whit­ney Museum of Amer­i­can Art, the Museum of Mod­ern Art, New York, the Art Insti­tute of Chicago and the Cen­ter for Cre­ative Pho­tog­ra­phy, Uni­ver­sity of Ari­zona. He received two Guggen­heim Fel­low­ships for pho­tog­ra­phy and film­mak­ing, a Rock­e­feller Fel­low­ship, and 10 National Endow­ment for the Arts awards. He is the found­ing mem­ber of the pho­tog­ra­phy group, Bleak Beauty.

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Media Con­tact: Angelina Skonieczka, (505) 277‑6773, askoniec@unm.edu