Danny Lyon
SNCC workers stand outside the funeral, Birmingham, Alabama, September 12, 1963: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby, 1963/1996
Estimated Value: $7,000

Silver gelatin print
11 x 14 inches
Unframed
Signed, verso
Donated by Etherton Gallery.

This image is from the series Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. It is reproduced as a double page spread in the book of the same title.

About the Artist:
Danny Lyon

All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in with, and is a participant of, the documented subject. He is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty.

After being accepted as the photographer for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement.

He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Lyon twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship along with a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, and a Lucie Award.

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