Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1962, becoming the first staff photographer in the civil rights movement and producing images from the front lines of demonstrations across the South. He spent two years riding with the Outlaws motorcycle club, producing The Bikeriders (1968), and later documented the lives of incarcerated men in Texas and Georgia state prisons for Conversations with the Dead (1971). His immersive approach to documentary - gaining access through prolonged personal involvement - was influential on subsequent generations.