The Seventh Dog - Hardcover

Sussman, Elisabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714848530 ISBN 13: 9780714848532

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2014

Synopsis

Named one of the season’s best photography books by TIME Lightbox.

Danny Lyon is one of the 20th century’s most influential documentary photographers. In The Seventh Dog, Lyon tells the story of his personal photographic journey, beginning in the present day and moving back in time through the 1950s. Beautifully produced, this unique photo book features Lyon’s own writings, collages, letters, documents, and color and black–and–white photographs – many published here for the first time.

About this title

About the Author:

Danny Lyon has long been considered one of the most original and influential documentary photographers. He pioneered the style of photographic `New Journalism' as he rebelled against Life magazine style photographs, instead immersing himself as a participant with his documented subjects. He produced his major bodies of work in this way: living with the Chicago outlaw motorcycle club for The Bikeriders, immersing himself in the Texas prison system for Conversations with the Dead. Since this work in the early 1960s and 1970s, Lyon has produced numerous highly collectible photobooks, mounted solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and won two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and ten National Endowment for the Arts awards. Lyon is the father of four children and divides his time between New York State and the state of New Mexico.

Review:

"Photographer of all things rebellious and quietly wild, Phaidon’s retrospective covers nearly 7 decades of Danny Lyon’s work and includes some never–before–seen images and mixed media work, along with written commentary by the man behind the lens." – TIME LightBox

"This unconventional monograph of the work of photographer, writer, and filmmaker Lyon is a revealing hybrid memoir in text and images. . . Reproductions of his striking photographs are interspersed with collages of documents and images, as well as evocative writing about the personal, political, and professional moments that defines his career" – Publishers Weekly

"Photography is not merely [Lyon’s] occupation or livelihood. This medium and his life are inextricably linked, and he reveals this plainly through a seamless weaving of the personal and professional. . . A lovely informality results from this combination of elements, as if we are rummaging unfettered through his studio." – photo–eye

". . . a poignant personal account of the remarkable 50 year career of one of America’s most original photographers." – Juxtapoz

"More than just another monograph or retrospective photo book. . . a remarkably raw and compelling journey" – Faded and Blurred

"A far cry from the vacuous coffee table art books with which it shares its considerable scale. This tome requires work. But it is the kind of work that any lover of the medium will welcome with great enthusiasm, relishing every moment spent with the work of a great artist." – photo‐eye

"Lyon is a national treasure." – EDGE on the net

"Allure of the outlaw. . . [Lyon] takes risks to get great photos." – Classic Bike Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0714848530
• ISBN 13: 9780714848532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240