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The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
by Lyon, Danny
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1576872327
- ISBN 13
- 9781576872321
- Seller
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new york, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Powerhouse Books, 2005. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. No fading to jacket. Completely clean. This is the first revised edition, first printing. 72 black & white photographs and text by Danny Lyon. 11" high X 9" wide. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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
- Design Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017136
- Title
- The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
- Author
- Lyon, Danny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1576872327
- ISBN 13
- 9781576872321
- Publisher
- Powerhouse Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Danny Lyon
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We offer out of print, scarce and rare books, prints and photographs. Our books are mainly in the areas of architecture, fine art, exhibition catalogs, Chinese and Japanese art, decorative arts, modern design, illustrated books, textile design, fine press and typography.
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