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The Americans: A Brooklyn Summer, 1974

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“A Brooklyn Summer, 1974” is a beautiful collection of vintage photos of Brooklyn taken in the summer of 1974 by photographer Danny Lyon, and the vintage tone of these summertime photographs makes everything look so much hotter. Lyon spent two months snapping pictures of the daily life in the borough, exploring Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Fort Green, Park Slope and other neighborhoods. Lyon captured the photographs of inner-city life while on assignment for Documerica, a project of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.

Born in 1942 in Brooklyn, Danny Lyon received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1973. In the 1960s and 1970s, Lyon made a name for himself covering life in Chicago’s impoverished Uptown Appalachian-migrant neighborhood and the Southern Civil Rights movement. Lyon went on to give the world three incredible works: “The Bikeriders,” in which he chronicled his travels as a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, “The Destruction of Lower Manhattan,” documenting the large-scale demolition of our country’s greatest city back in 1967, and “Conversations with the Dead,” in which he photographed and wrote about Texas inmates in 6 different prisons.

Lyon’s work has been frequently exhibited and collected; he is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts grants in both film and photography.

This piece include a number of vintage color photographs, a photo-gallery and a documentary short film.

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