Advertisement Continue reading the main story“When researchers dig into the history of the American ‘photo boom’ of the 1960s and 1970s, they inevitably find that all roads lead back to Nathan Lyons,” said Jessica S. McDonald, the editor of “Nathan Lyons: Selected Essays, Lectures, and Interviews” (2012). Mr. Lyons was hired by the George Eastman House in 1957 as director of public information and the assistant editor of Image magazine. In his own work, Mr. Lyons favored abstract images at the outset of his career. Mr. Lyons was the editor of “Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology” (1966), one of the first sourcebooks of photography criticism. In 2000, the George Eastman House mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work, “Nathan Lyons: A Survey, 1957-2000.”

Source: New York Times September 02, 2016 02:39 UTC