Special Guided Tour: «The Literary World of Danny Lyon» with Therese Steffen

Danny Lyon, most famous for his photographs, is also a filmmaker and an author, who has always been keen on contextualizing his photographs with his writings in „lucid prose … by turns irresistible, penetrating, explosive, and confounding, but also equal to the best of his work in photography” (Julian Cox). Lyon was inspired by the Beat Generation and the 'new journalism' of Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote and Joan Didion. Therese Steffen, em. Prof. for American Literature, will guide us through Danny Lyon’s literary world. The tour will take place in German (with occasional excerpts from the original text sources in English).

Entrance fee 10 CHF / 8 CHF

Danny Lyon, Tesca, Cartagena, Colombia, 1966 © Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos.
Courtesy Gavin Brown‘s Enterprise