DANNY LYON DOUBLE FEATURE
Danny Lyon Double Feature
A film by Danny Lyon
w/ Various
Rated NR
1hr 30min
CELEBRATING the 200th ANNIVERSARY of PHOTOGRAPHY
PRESENTED by OBSCURA GALLERY
FEATURING BOOK SIGNING and INTRODUCTION from DANNY LYON
Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer, filmmaker, and pioneer of photographic New Journalism who immerses himself directly inside the communities he documents. After his ground breaking work as a photojournalist in the 1960’s, Danny Lyon turned to films, making a series of non-fiction films in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Join us to celebrate his work with the seminal classics BORN TO FILM (1982) and BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY (2025).
Lyon's new book, The Rebel’s Scrapbook, traces a single, interwoven lineage of dissent across more than a century, built out of the Lyon family archive, political ephemera, and Lyon’s photographs. Part memoir, part historical collage, it assembles memory and history into a visual record of revolt and the human impulse to resist tyranny — inherited and carried forward image after image, generation by generation.
Lyon's passionate vision has deepened and grown in resonance, and the film is not just family or even social history, but about human continuity, the power of the instinct to survive, the grace that love and play bring to it, the wonder of being alive.
Thomas Albright
San Francisco Chronicle
Thomas Albright
San Francisco Chronicle
Danny Lyon's book signing will begin at 3:30pm, a half hour prior to film start time.
DANNY LYON DOUBLE FEATURE
Danny Lyon Double Feature
A film by Danny Lyon
w/ Various
Rated NR
1hr 30min
CELEBRATING the 200th ANNIVERSARY of PHOTOGRAPHY
PRESENTED by OBSCURA GALLERY
FEATURING BOOK SIGNING and INTRODUCTION from DANNY LYON
Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer, filmmaker, and pioneer of photographic New Journalism who immerses himself directly inside the communities he documents. After his ground breaking work as a photojournalist in the 1960’s, Danny Lyon turned to films, making a series of non-fiction films in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Join us to celebrate his work with the seminal classics BORN TO FILM (1982) and BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY (2025).
Lyon's new book, The Rebel’s Scrapbook, traces a single, interwoven lineage of dissent across more than a century, built out of the Lyon family archive, political ephemera, and Lyon’s photographs. Part memoir, part historical collage, it assembles memory and history into a visual record of revolt and the human impulse to resist tyranny — inherited and carried forward image after image, generation by generation.
Lyon's passionate vision has deepened and grown in resonance, and the film is not just family or even social history, but about human continuity, the power of the instinct to survive, the grace that love and play bring to it, the wonder of being alive.
Thomas Albright
San Francisco Chronicle
Thomas Albright
San Francisco Chronicle
Danny Lyon's book signing will begin at 3:30pm, a half hour prior to film start time.
