The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Rachel Homer

Rachel Homer

1967, printed 2007
(American, 1942-)
Image: 25.5 x 20.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.7 cm (13 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

In an abandoned loft, Lyon found a blank printer’s book and began using it as a diary. On June 27, 1967, he noted, “Today I met Rachel. I knelt on the floor of the Park Place Gallery trying to arrange some pictures I was showing, and there she stood in a mod outfit and close cropped hair—I thought it was a boy, even after she spoke.” In 2004 Lyon reminisced that “meeting Rachel changed everything. Until then I had really done almost nothing but photograph the buildings. That and print my photographs in the darkroom and be lonely and smoke pot and go to sleep and await another day to make more photographs.” In September 1967, the couple left Manhattan for Texas, where Lyon would photograph inside the prison system.
  • Danny Lyon: The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-October 7, 2018).
  • {{cite web|title=Rachel Homer |url=false|author=Danny Lyon|year=1967, printed 2007|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.409