Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker.
All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in, and is a participant of, the documented subject. He is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty.
After being accepted as the photographer for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement.
He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Lyon twice received a Guggenheim Fellowshipa Rockefeller Fellowship, Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalismand a Lucie Award.
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The American biker subculture of the 1960s, capturing themes of camaraderie, rebellion, and marginalization through participatory New Journalism.
Books
The Bikeriders
(Aperture, 2014)
The Bikeriders
(Chronicle Books, 2003)
The Bikeriders
(Twin Palms Publishers, 1997)