Richard A. Lyon
American, 1914-1994
Born 1914, Manhattan, New York
Died 1994
Lyon trained as a chemist at New York University in 1936. Unable to find work during the Depression, he turned to photography. He belonged to the Photo League from 1936 to 1940 (serving as vice president of the executive committee in 1938–39); while there, he was a member of Aaron Siskind's Feature Group and participated in its projects Portrait of a Tenement (1936), Park Avenue: North and South (1936–37), and Harlem Document, an extended photo-documentation of Harlem made by a group of ten photographers between 1936 and 1940. After 1940 Lyon worked as a photojournalist for the renowned Black Star photography agency (1940–42). In 1942–43 he collaborated with Morris Engel on Children in Trouble, a photograph series produced for the Jewish Board of Guardians, New York. Lyon's photographs have appeared in Look, U.S. Camera Annual, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. His work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Died 1994
Lyon trained as a chemist at New York University in 1936. Unable to find work during the Depression, he turned to photography. He belonged to the Photo League from 1936 to 1940 (serving as vice president of the executive committee in 1938–39); while there, he was a member of Aaron Siskind's Feature Group and participated in its projects Portrait of a Tenement (1936), Park Avenue: North and South (1936–37), and Harlem Document, an extended photo-documentation of Harlem made by a group of ten photographers between 1936 and 1940. After 1940 Lyon worked as a photojournalist for the renowned Black Star photography agency (1940–42). In 1942–43 he collaborated with Morris Engel on Children in Trouble, a photograph series produced for the Jewish Board of Guardians, New York. Lyon's photographs have appeared in Look, U.S. Camera Annual, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications. His work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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