Nathan Lyons

Nathan Lyons (January 10, 1930 – August 31, 2016) was an American photographer, curator, and educator. He exhibited his photographs from 1956 onwards, produced books of his own and edited those of others.

Lyons was also a curator of photography and an associate director at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York He died on 31 August 2016, aged 86.

Education and military service In 1945 Lyons became interested in photography after viewing a darkroom demonstration and he began to photograph with a plastic Falcon camera while working in his family's glass and mirror business. and further explored the aesthetic in his lecture "Photography and the Picture Experience" regarding the snapshot as "authentic picture form." Lyons also organized the exhibitions The Persistence of Vision,, 1967, Photography in the Twentieth Century, 1967, and Vision and Expression, 1969 at George Eastman House. In 1969 Lyons resigned from George Eastman House and founded Visual Studies Workshop.

In 2008 he organized the retrospective exhibition John Wood: On the Edge of Clear Meaning, Photography in the Twentieth Century. New York: Horizon Press, 1967. Edited by Lyons. "Prepared by the George Eastman House of Photography on the occasion of the exhibition 'Photography in the twentieth century, ' which opened at the National Gallery of Canada in February of 1967." Vision and Expression. New York: Horizon Press, 1969. Edited by Lyons. "Prepared on the occasion of the exhibition, 'Vision and expression, ' which opened at the George Eastman House in February of 1969." Eye Mind Spirit: The Enduring Legacy of Minor White. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2008. Photographs by Minor White. . Edited by Lyons. Preface by Peter Bunnell. Toward a Social Landscape: Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Danny Lyons, Duane Michals. New York: Horizon Press, 1966. Edited by Lyons. Photographs by Bruce Davidson, Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, Duane Michals, and Garry Winogrand. . "A collection of work ... represented in the exhibition, "Toward a social landscape," held at the George Eastman House, December 1966."

Awards 1974: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship to complete his series Notations in Passing.