1. Danny Lyon

2. Born March 16 th 1942 in Brooklyn, New York. Studied history at the University of Chicago and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963. Self taught as a photographer; “New Journalism”

3. Civil Rights Movement In 1962, joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a staff photographer while he was still a student. Documented the segregated South during the Civil Rights Movement. Arrested along with other SNCC members just one week after arriving in the South.

4. The Bikeriders

7. Conversations with the Dead

11. Awards Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Photography 1969; Film making 1979 Missouri Honor Medal Distinguished Service in Journalism Rockefeller Fellowship in Film making Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Boston

12. Biblography Kennedy, Randy “Stubbornly Practicing His Principles of Photography” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/arts/design/26kenn.html?pagewa nted=all&_r=0 The New York Times April 24, 2009 Ladd, Jeffery “Danny Lyon: The World Is Not My Home” http://lightbox.time.com/2012/03/29/danny-lyon/#1 Lightbox -Time March 29, 2012 Changose, Emma “Q&A with veteran photographer Danny Lyonhttp://northernarizonanews.com/blog/2011/02/25/qa-with-veteran- photographer-danny-lyon/” Northern Arizona News February 25, 2011