We're excited to welcome back Obscura Gallery artist Danny Lyon for a book signing of his latest release, 'JUNK: America in Ruins' (Damiani 2025), on Saturday, June 28, 12:30-2:30pm. In addition to JUNK we will also have other rare, limited edition books for sale available by Danny Lyon
JUNK is a spectacular visual journey through the great forgotten junkyards of the West, where the historic gas-guzzling monsters of the 1950s and ’60s lie wrecked and rusting in the relentless western sun. At first with his Rolleiflex loaded with color negative film, then working with a Fujifilm medium format digital camera, Lyon pictures the cars as if they were remnants of a civilization in ruins. Junk: America in Ruins (Damiani Books, 2025) features images of more than 80 American cars that Lyon discovered in forgotten junkyards on travels through Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma.
Lyon is one of the most influential photographers of the last six decades and a key figure of New Journalism, whose immersive and groundbreaking works include The Bikeriders (1968), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), The Southwestern Portfolio: New Mexico and Mexico (1967-1983) and the memoir This Is My Life I’m Talking About (Damiani Books, 2024). Lyon's Civil Rights archive was acquired by the Duke University in 2024, and his photographic documentary Conversations with the Dead remains “as powerful and relevant as ever” in light of America’s ever expanding system of mass incarceration.
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