DANNY LYON, Joselyn, Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972, 8.625x13" Gelatin silver print, Printed 1983, Signed, titled and dated in pencil on print verso; "Bleak Beauty" printing stamp.

Visiting Colombia in 1972, Lyon photographed and made a film about a group of abandoned children who slept on the cathedral steps and "lived off garbage and had absolutely nothing except a few pieces of string that they kept under a manhole cover they called the oficina (office)."

Credit: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.259

Celebrated as one of the leading social documentary photographers and filmmakers of 20th Century American photography along with Robert Frank, Lyon's work is gritty dealing with issues are festering around ideas of justice, poverty, and racial equality.

Danny Lyon (b. 1942) is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker from Brooklyn, New York. He is also an accomplished writer; whose texts often accompany his photographs. Lyon studied history at the University of Chicago, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963. That same year, he published his first photographs working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His pictures appeared in The Movement, a documentary book about the Southern Civil Rights Movement.

Later, Lyon began creating his own books. His first, The Bikeriders (1967), was a study of outlaw motorcyclists in the American Midwest. In addition to photographing these motorcyclists, Lyon became a member of the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle club and traveled with them, sharing their lifestyle. According to Lyon, the photographs were "an attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bike rider." The series was immensely popular and influential in the 1960s and 1970s. Following the success of  The Bikeriders, Danny Lyon became a part of the Magnum Agency, although he primarily worked as an independent photographer and filmmaker.

Lyon works consistently in the style of photographic "New Journalism," meaning that the photographer becomes immersed in and is a participant of the documented subject.

CREDIT: Peter Fetterman Gallery
https://www.peterfetterman.com/artists/141-danny-lyon/biography/

Very good. Edge wear.