The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Uptown Chicago
1965, printed 1979
(American, 1942-)
Image: 24.9 x 24.7 cm (9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.); Paper: 35.3 x 27.6 cm (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Gift of Alan and Monah L. Gettner 2017.258
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=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.258