The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Uptown Chicago
1965, printed 1979
(American, 1942-)
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.)
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2017.257
Location: not on view
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.”- {{cite web|title=Uptown Chicago|url=false|author=Danny Lyon|year=1965, printed 1979|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.257