Pigeon Coop
Danny Lyon
Description
Subject Matter:
In Let Them Kill Themselves, Lyon documented urban life in Bushwick. Lyon made this image from a rooftop on a Myrtle Avenue tenement. Lyon frames the city beyond, showing a view of a rooftop, a man flying his pigeons.
Physical Description:
A photograph of a view from a rooftop. A man stands on the left side of the composition, watching pigeons fly above the scene. In the distance, more pigeons flock above the skyline.
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