For Food... For Freedom, SNCC, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Poster
- ca 1963
- Danny Lyon
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22 x 14 inches ~ (55 x 35 cm)$3,650
- Linen backed
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself.
The price of this poster includes linen backing.
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One of a series of posters produced for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee by Danny Lyon.
We also have other SNCC posters available.
Danny Lyon is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lyon is of Jewish (German & Russian) heritage and primarily works in the USA. He pursued his BA in History at the University of Chicago in 1963, where he also worked as a staff photographer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The SNCC was birthed in the early 1960’s and was made up of Black college students across America, who practiced peaceful protests against institutional segregation and that in local communities. Lyon’s work with the SNCC was incremental to his career as a photographer as he spent much of his life recording historical events related to the civil rights movement and the political atmosphere within the United States in the late 1900’s. Today, Lyon is an associate at Magnum and has received numerous accolades from the likes of the Guggenheim, the Rockerfeller Foundation, and The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.
