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A burner is lifted to cut the bolts in the cast-iron front of 82 Beekman Street. The cast-iron is then smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer. New York, 1967. Danny Lyon

$7,000

Open Edition Signed

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Danny Lyon returned to his hometown of New York in 1966 and settled in Lower Manhattan. After observing that half the buildings on his street were boarded up, he learned that a 60-acre area was slated for urban renewal—a wholesale leveling of several neighborhoods, including one of the city’s oldest. He realized that his next project must be this momentous transition and envisioned images that would be both document and eulogy. “I came to see the buildings as fossils of a time past,” wrote Lyon. “For a hundred years they have stood in the darkness and the day. . . . Now, in the end, they are visited by demolition men . . . pulling apart brick by brick and beam by beam the work of other American workers who once stood on the same walls and held the same bricks, then new, so long ago.”

Silver Gelatin Print
Open Edition
Signed

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