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Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon and the New Photographic Journalism
"Self-portrait in mirror". © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos.
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Introduction
Danny Lyon emerges in the landscape of twentieth-century photography as one of the undisputed and most influential pioneers of what literary and visual critics have termed "New Journalism." Breaking away from the classical documentary tradition, which postulated the photographer as a detached, invisible, and rigorously neutral observer, Lyon revolutionized the medium by choosing the path of total immersion.
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