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Fred Lyon
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Fred Lyon was an American photographer whose nocturnal views of San Francisco, shrouded in fog and captured between the 1940s and 1960s, established him as a chronicler of the city's urban atmosphere. Working across military, fashion, landscape, and street photography, Lyon developed a distinctive approach to nighttime urban imagery that drew comparisons to Brassaï. His body of work documents San Francisco's streets, architecture, and social life during a transformative period in the city's history.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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