Danny Lyon: American Odyssey: Birmingham to Bernalillo

Taken over decades, Lyon’s photographs represent time colliding with and collapsing onto itself. In many of his works, he is chronicling lives lived and the quintessential human struggle for freedom; in others he is witnessing the destruction of the environment around him. On this journey, he too is searching, always seeking to capture beauty in stark contrast with the reality that surrounds it.  — Josie Lopez, Head Curator, Albuquerque Museum

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble. — Danny Lyon         

Within every human heart, even in the worst among us, there is something that cares about each other and that’s what I try to appeal to. — Danny Lyon to Elizabeth Dexter, Senses of Cinema, 2022