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Card Game, Restaurant in Xinrong
A signed limited edition silver gelatin print of Card Game, Restaurant in Xinrong accompanies Danny Lyon’s Deep Sea Diver Collector’s Edition. Signed by Lyon, the print gives the chance to own a piece of photojournalistic history from Lyon’s many trips to the Shanxi Province in northeast China between 2005 and 2009. By immersing himself so completely in the every lives of the people he photographs, Lyon records moments rarely seen by foreigners.
Card Game, Restaurant in Xinrong demonstrates Lyon’s uncanny ability to settle effortlessly into the people and culture of every area of the world he visits. The girl in the photograph remains unaware, or at least uninhibited, by Lyon’s Leica lens as he captures this fleeting moment where she peeps at her competitor’s cards while no one else seems to be looking.
The Collector's Edition
Danny Lyon’s Memories of Myself and Deep Sea Diver Collector’s Editions give a rare opportunity to own a genuine limited edition silver gelatin print by one of the most original and influential documentary photographers in American photography. Phaidon Collector's Editions are commissioned by and created especially for Phaidon Press. Each comprises a special edition of a Phaidon book that is beautifully bound, individually signed and numbered and presented in a custom-made box, together with an original work of art also signed and numbered by the artist.
Danny Lyon: Deep Sea Diver
An American Photographer's Journey in Shanxi, China
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Specifications
- Hardback
- English
- 280 x 330 mm, 11 x 13 in
- 136 pp
- 85 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714861043
- ISBN-10: 0714861049
Overview
- A limited edition facsimile of Danny Lyon’s original photobook/diary compiled after his six trips to Shanxi Province in northeast China.
- A pioneer of ‘New Journalism’, Lyon’s fearless determination to immerse himself in local culture enabled him to create a unique portrait of the place and its people.
- Lyon’s vivid descriptions bring the photographs alive to portray the traditions and idiosyncrasies of a rapidly changing nation.
About the authors
Danny Lyon has long been considered one of the most influential documentary photographers and has produced several highly collectable photobooks, exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, and won numerous awards. He divides his time between New York State and New Mexico.
Danny Lyon
"My negatives and contact sheets became my memory"
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Rebellious photojournalist, explorer and social documenter, the acclaimed Danny Lyon pioneered a form of photography that became known as the ‘New Journalism’.
Reacting against news publications which began to saturate media during the 1960s, such as Life and Look, Lyon dedicated himself throughout his remarkable career to producing photographs not to sell magazines, but to create images that were as he puts it - “stronger, more truthful and more powerful than Life magazine.”
He delved into the lives of the people he photographed, spending time with his subjects and by so doing inspired a future generation of photographers.
Lyon’s photographs aimed not to create or construct “photo-stories”, a term used by photojournalists and editors alike, because, in his own words, his images were “reality itself and their power came from the power of the individual people I pictured and believed in.”
Memories of Myself and Deep Sea Diver demonstrate the way in which Lyon has been able to settle into virtually any world, in any area of the globe and with people from all walks of life, to record with empathy, the day to day realities of their existence.
As celebrated photojournalist Michel Guerrin wrote in Le Monde: ‘When Danny Lyon began to talk to his “subjects”, he changed the history of photography. These are iconic images from the creation of New Journalism.’
Danny Lyon
Phaidon Press Collector's Editions
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bgoodwin@phaidon.com
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About Phaidon Press Collector's Editions
Collector's Editions are commissioned by and created specially for Phaidon Press.
Each comprises a special edition of a Phaidon book that is beautifully bound, individually signed and numbered, and presented in a custom-made box together with an original artwork made and also signed and numbered by the artist.