Endpapers: Detail from "Who Are We?" (2016-2018), 4 x 8 foot bulletin board with thumbtacked photographs, ephemera and collage elements on wallboard.
Contents:
Introduction -- Leave some space: a consideration of the writings of Danny Lyon / Randy Kennedy -- Struggle. Satirist says he'd televise executions -- A conversation with the Alabama Highway Patrol, Gadsden, Alabama -- Letter to my parents -- On Billy McCune -- Billy George McCune, Inmate #122054 -- Letter to Harris Dulany -- Introduction to the autobiography of Billy McCune -- He is running for us all -- Who killed Camera arts? -- A sad ringside seat -- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round: the use and misuse of the Southern Civil Rights Movement -- Original introduction to Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement -- Television is the pits -- On receiving an honorary degree -- Died for freedom -- Blood in the streets -- Remarks on the work of photography -- Kill the Koch Brothers -- Neither a slave nor a master -- Julian Bond, 1940-2015: a generation is vanishing -- Burn zone -- Introduction to Josephine Ferorelli's "climate criminals" -- What made the sixties the sixties -- Message to the Parkland students -- Welcome to El Paso -- Dinker is dead -- Record. A photographer's lament -- Conversations from a phone booth on Route 66 -- Photographs -- A conversation with Hugh Edwards -- Walker Evans: an American photographer 00 Danny Lyon: the last photographer -- The photographic album -- Pseudohistory/Pseudophotography -- Media man -- In praise of Agee -- Set it at F.11 -- Such damnable ghastliness: a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- The end of the Age of Photography, Part one -- The end of the Age of Photography, Part two: The Digi and the end of the world as we have known and loved it -- The End of the Age of Photography, Part three: The girl with the Rolleiflex meets the homeless man -- The end of the Age of Photography, The conclusion -- Hugh Edwards -- Stories. "Press release" for Bleak Beauty Films and Pictures -- Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? -- Leaving time -- Doing life: Nan Goldin talks with Danny Lyon -- Noah Ernst Lyon -- Rebels -- Memories of myself -- conversation with Susan Meiselas -- In memoriam: Jason Martin -- Smoke, wind, and fire -- When fathers die: remembering Robert Frank -- Maine: a cabin in the woods -- Uprising.
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