Further artist research -Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon is a photographer and film maker from America. The work that he creates takes on a journalistic approach with his common interests being Socioeconomic, counter-cultural and civil rights issues. The main themes within the images that Lyon creates include: 'Protestors being arrested', 'Outlaw biker gangs' and 'The destruction of historic neighbourhoods'.
A quote that I was drawn to by Danny Lyon in response to his own work was "The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own".
I am especially drawn to this artist purely for the fact that his project Outlaw biker gangs, takes on a similar feel to my own project, 'The female biker'; working closely with these individuals in order to build a connection with them, to the point that you immerse yourself with them so much that you almost become one of them. I am also drawn to the fact that Danny Lyon uses black and white within each of his images, this is something that I have been interested in using for my own images since the beginning.
A quote that I was drawn to by Danny Lyon in response to his own work was "The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own".
I am especially drawn to this artist purely for the fact that his project Outlaw biker gangs, takes on a similar feel to my own project, 'The female biker'; working closely with these individuals in order to build a connection with them, to the point that you immerse yourself with them so much that you almost become one of them. I am also drawn to the fact that Danny Lyon uses black and white within each of his images, this is something that I have been interested in using for my own images since the beginning.
