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Gallup, New Mexico, 11:37 AM (for Lewis Hine)
Creator
Danny LyonAmerican Photographer · 1942–present
All works by this person →> Photographers traditionally have worked in silence, putting everything into the picture, that small area, measured in inches, that they have staked out. I have never done that, but have usually presented my photographs in a book with text. In the texts I have spoken through other people's voices, sometimes out of respect for what they had to say, and sometimes as a disguise for myself. > >--Dann
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- 1970
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print with ink
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 41fec399-e758-469d-b734-b5a80d0c2072
From the Getty Museum record
The subject of the photograph is the silhouette of the photographer's shadow on the plate glass window of a cafe. His outline forms the division between what can be seen inside the restaurant and the reflection of the street scene behind the photographer. Even in outline form, certain details of the photographer's figure can be deciphered: the cowboy hat he wears and the distinctive shape on the right side of his head that indicates a camera held up to his left eye. Visible in the silhouetted hat brim, the restaurant's wall clock clearly registers the time, *11:37.* Danny Lyon inscribed a dedication, "For Lewis Hine," visible in the lower left border around the print. Hine's socially conscious photographs, particularly his *Self-Portrait with Newsboy,* influenced Lyon.
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