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Pigeon Coop

Danny Lyon

Artwork Details

Pigeon Coop
1992; printed 2010
Danny Lyon
gelatin silver print on paper
11 in x 14 in (27.94 cm x 35.56 cm)
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2013/2.351

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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