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Uptown Chicago

1965, printed 1979

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 22.2 x 33 cm (8 3/4 x 13 in.); Paper: 27.7 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2017.257
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Lyon got to know and photographed the inhabitants of Clifton Street in Uptown, a tough, Chicago neighborhood populated by recent immigrants from central Appalachia. “The pictures,” he wrote, “do not ask you to ‘help’ these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly and intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.”

Uptown Chicago

1965, printed 1979

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)
America

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