Post War & Contemporary Art 
23 May 2023
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 1 of 4
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 2 of 4
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 3 of 4
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 4 of 4
Post War & Contemporary Art 
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 1 of 4
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 2 of 4
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 3 of 4
Danny Lyon, Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series) - Image 4 of 4
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Danny Lyon b.1942

Albany, Georgia (from the Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement series)

1962
vintage gelatin silver print image: 3⅞ h × 5⅜ w in (10 × 14 cm) sheet: 4⅜ h × 5⅞ w in (11 × 15 cm)
estimate: $5,000–15,000
result: $4,032
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Signed, titled, dated and inscribed to verso ‘Albany, 1962 unique, cropped print Dougherty Courthouse Danny Lyon JK4 #5 LYV-8X10-4.00.5055 EC2248 DL-0517' with printer's stamp. This unique work was printed by Bleak Beauty.
provenance: Etherton Gallery, Tucson | Private Collection, California

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This is really quite special. The neg was thin because I made a slow exposure in a dark corridor of the court house (I was afraid). Over time the neg faded and this was made when the neg was in great shape. My guess is that what you call “flair” is young Danny dodging the print with my hand, and going that a hair too long. That it was cropped (for SNCC) is extremely rare.

Danny Lyon discussing the present lot

Danny Lyon

“The civil rights movement was my coming of age,” photographer Danny Lyon explained in a 2012 interview with The Guardian. At 20 years old in 1962, Lyon left his home in Queens, New York, to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Selma, Alabama – a week later, he was in a jail cell next to Dr. Martin Luther King. Over the next several years, Lyon would continue to establish himself as a proponent of New Journalism (along with figures like Hunter S. Thompson), counting among his subjects biker gangs, inmates of the Texas prison system, and the razing of historic neighborhoods in lower Manhattan to make room for the World Trade Center.

I wanted adventure and I wanted dirt – all the things my parents didn't want. I wanted freedom for myself. I had a huge sense of adventure and I wanted to experience it.

Danny Lyon, The Guardian

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