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Danny Lyon
Self Portrait, Chicago1966

Not on view
Black and white photograph of a bearded man in a leather jacket seated on a parked motorcycle against a black background, high-contrast lighting

Danny Lyon, Self Portrait, Chicago, 1966, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Danny Lyon
United States, New York, Brooklyn, born 1942
Title
Self Portrait, Chicago
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1966
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (12 × 12 cm) Primary support: 9 7/8 × 7 15/16 in. (25.1 × 20.1 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm) Frame: 20 × 16 × 1 in. (50.8 × 40.64 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.83
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
Copyright
© Danny Lyon