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wearing furniture

fraying at its edges

a tableau vivant of our delirious idleness

the human form and the photographic image

The Destruction of Lower Manhattan Shirley baker wearing furnitureFirst Aperture edition of The Destruction of Lower Manhattan by Danny Lyon. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition. Signed by the artist on the title page. About After creating the series The Bikeriders and moving back to New York in 1966, Lyon settled into a downtown loft, becoming one of the few artists to document the dramatic changes taking place. Lyon writes, Whole blocks would disappear. An entire neighbourhood. Its few last