The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
by Danny Lyon
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: PowerHouse Books, 2005. Dark blue buckram, white titles, black endpapers / pastedown, 72 plates, & Epilogue; A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Danny Lyon. 9.25"x10.5".
Synopsis
Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn. While studying history at the University of Chicago, Lyon joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as their first staff photographer. One of the best-known photojournalists today, Lyon has produced ten books of photography and an equal number of nonfiction films. His books include, Indian Nations (Twin Palms, 2002), Knave of Hearts (Twin Palms, 1999), a memoir, Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement (University of North Carolina, 1992), Merci Gonaives (Bleak Beauty, 1988), an account of the 1986 Haitian revolution, and Conversations with the Dead (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), the first book by a photojournalist inside the American prison system. He has received a Rockefeller Fellowship in filmmaking, Guggenheim Fellowships for photography and filmmaking, and numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His photographs are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; as well as other museums throughout the world. Lyon farms in Ulster County, New York and Sandoval County, New Mexico.
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- Bookseller
- White Raven Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CJ16817
- Title
- The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
- Author
- Danny Lyon
- Illustrator
- Danny Lyon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- PowerHouse Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 9.25"x10.5"
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