Artworks · Danny Lyon

Windows of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Where Four Fourteen-Year-Old Girls Were Killed by a KKK Bomb

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 32.5 × 21.8 cm (12 13/16 × 8 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

John Lewis in Cairo

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.8 × 32.4 cm (8 5/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dr. Martin Luther King Just Before He Speaks at Birmingham

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 32.8 × 21.6 cm (12 15/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Freedom Choir in the Tabernacle Baptist Church. High school students and children helped start the Selma movement

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.2 × 32 cm (8 3/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Road to Yazoo City

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 32.4 × 21.7 cm (12 13/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.7 cm (14 × 10 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Police at Clarksdale, Mississippi

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.1 × 33.8 cm (9 1/8 × 13 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.6 × 35.3 cm (10 7/8 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Police at Clarksdale, Mississippi

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.8 × 32.5 cm (8 5/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Atlanta, Police Car Window

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 21.7 × 32.5 cm (8 9/16 × 12 13/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.5 cm (10 15/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Danville, Virginia

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.2 × 33.6 cm (9 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Paper: 27.7 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Danville, Virginia

1963 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.7 × 33.6 cm (8 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Paper: 26.6 × 35.3 cm (10 1/2 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Route 12, Wisconsin

1963 · Gelatin silver print

8 3/4 × 12 15/16" (22.3 × 32.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Washington

1963 · Gelatin silver print

11 3/4 × 8 3/16" (29.8 × 20.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

James Forman, like many of the SNCC field staff, was a powerful stump speaker. Here he works the crowd at the Danville, Virginia mass meeting. An hour later he will be searched by police holding shotguns and automatic weapons

1963 · gelatin silver print

Image: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

SNCC workers stand outside the funeral: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah, and Doris Derby, Birmingham

1963 · gelatin silver print

Image: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Truck in the Desert near Yuma, Arizona

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.4 × 33.9 cm (8 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.); Mount: 56 × 45.9 cm (22 1/16 × 18 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Racer, Griffin, Georgia, from the series "The Bikeriders"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.5 × 33.1 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/16 in.); Mount: 55.9 × 45.9 cm (22 1/16 × 18 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Brooklyn Bridge Site from the Roof of the Beekman Hospital, from the series "Destruction of Lower Manhattan"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 24.7 × 31.4 cm (9 3/4 × 12 3/8 in.); Mount: 56.2 × 45.7 cm (22 3/16 × 18 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Texan Prison Rodeo, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 32.6 × 22.1 cm (12 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.4 × 28.1 cm (13 15/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Norris Mundy from Montreal; Five Years and an Eight Year Federal Hold, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.2 × 32.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.4 cm (11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Truck in the desert near Yuma, Arizona

1962 · Gelatin silver print, No. 1 from the portfolio "Danny Lyon" (1979)

Image: 22.1 × 32.7 cm (8 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.5 cm (11 1/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Building Shakedown, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.1 × 32.6 cm (8 3/4 × 12 7/8 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.4 cm (11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Return from the Fields, Shakedown at the Rear Gate, Twice Each Day, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 16 × 23.6 cm (6 5/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Shakedown, Main Corridor, from series "Conversations with the Dead"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

15.9 × 23.6 cm (image); 20.1 × 25.3 (paper)

Art Institute of Chicago

Melquiades Garcia, Walls, from the series "Conversations with the Dead"

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.5 × 15.8 cm (9 5/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 12.1 × 17.7 cm (4 13/16 × 7 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 16.3 × 24.2 cm (6 7/16 × 9 9/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 21.8 × 32.9 cm (8 5/8 × 13 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 17.7 × 24.4 cm (7 × 9 5/8 in.); Mount: 22.8 × 26.7 cm (9 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 21.6 × 32.3 cm (8 9/16 × 12 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.8 × 33.9 cm (9 × 13 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.4 × 33.6 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.4 × 33.2 cm (8 7/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 21.4 × 33.4 cm (8 7/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Terril County, S.W. GA

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 31.6 × 15.6 cm (12 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.8 × 31.8 cm (9 × 12 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 23.9 × 33.7 cm (9 7/16 × 13 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 35.5 cm (11 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 23.4 × 34.3 cm (9 1/4 × 13 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.5 × 33.4 cm (8 7/8 × 13 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 21.5 × 32.6 cm (8 1/2 × 12 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Savannah, GA)

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 15.4 × 10.3 cm (6 1/8 × 4 1/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 × 11.9 cm (8 × 4 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ruleville, MS

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 24.1 × 16.3 cm (9 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 25.3 × 20.4 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 22.9 × 34.2 cm (9 1/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Paper: 32.2 × 38.1 cm (12 11/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cairo, IL

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 30.3 × 25.1 cm (11 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22 × 33.6 cm (8 11/16 × 13 1/4 in.); Mount: 27.7 × 40.7 cm (10 15/16 × 16 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Segregated Drinking Fountain

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 24.1 × 16.6 cm (9 1/2 × 6 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 33.3 × 22.3 cm (13 1/8 × 8 13/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.2 × 34.1 cm (8 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.); Mount: 25.9 × 38.2 cm (10 1/4 × 15 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 22.1 × 33.5 cm (8 3/4 × 13 1/4 in.); Mount: 27.9 × 40.6 cm (11 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago