ExhibitionOctober 8, 2020
Danny Lyon exhibition at ICO Museum, during PHotoESPAÑA 2020
ICO Museum opened the photographic exhibition “The Destruction of Lower Manhattan” by photojournalist and filmmaker Danny Lyon. The show brings together 76 images of a part of Manhattan when it was being demolished in 1967 and will be on view until January 17, 2021.
“The Destruction of Lower Manhattan,” which is part of the official section of PHotoESPAÑA 2020, is one the most important photographic essays of the 20th century with the city as the center of attention. Also, coinciding with the exhibition, the Museum is showing the series ‘An album: Europe, summer 1959’, a selection of 24 photograph never exhibited before, which Lyon took at the beginning of his career during a trip to Europe.
The exhibition approaches the city of the twentieth century, a Manhattan (New York) where the transformation process has been constant. Danny Lyon portrayed one of its most convulsive moments of change, after returning from Chicago in 1967. A Manhattan immersed in one of its most profound transformations around the Brooklyn Bridge, Washington Market and West Street which in part would give way to a new system of public squared but especially a demolition that among others would give way to the emergence of a new financial and commercial heart, the World trade Center.
The photographs are the reflection of an urban debate that began in 1960, a wave of real estate speculation exemplifying the constant debate of urban transformation.
For more information visit: https://www.fundacionico.es/exposiciones/danny-lyon-la-destruccion-del-bajo-manhattan/
“The Destruction of Lower Manhattan,” which is part of the official section of PHotoESPAÑA 2020, is one the most important photographic essays of the 20th century with the city as the center of attention. Also, coinciding with the exhibition, the Museum is showing the series ‘An album: Europe, summer 1959’, a selection of 24 photograph never exhibited before, which Lyon took at the beginning of his career during a trip to Europe.
The exhibition approaches the city of the twentieth century, a Manhattan (New York) where the transformation process has been constant. Danny Lyon portrayed one of its most convulsive moments of change, after returning from Chicago in 1967. A Manhattan immersed in one of its most profound transformations around the Brooklyn Bridge, Washington Market and West Street which in part would give way to a new system of public squared but especially a demolition that among others would give way to the emergence of a new financial and commercial heart, the World trade Center.
The photographs are the reflection of an urban debate that began in 1960, a wave of real estate speculation exemplifying the constant debate of urban transformation.
For more information visit: https://www.fundacionico.es/exposiciones/danny-lyon-la-destruccion-del-bajo-manhattan/
