Bushwick

"Let Them Kill Themselves", by Danny Lyon, Le Point du Jour editor, Paris, 1996. First edition. French and English text. 48 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Condition: Excellent.

100€

The wanderings of the American photographer Danny Lyon (born in 1942 and famous among others for his book The Bikeriders published in 1968 in London) in the working-class district of Bushwick in Brooklyn. Lyon follows a few young people and according to the meetings and its walks takes striking photographs of the daily life of this predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. The book combines a photograph on the left page and Lyon’s commentary on the right page. A very beautiful testimony on the life of a neighborhood and the idleness of certain bands magnetized by drug trafficking, violence and idleness.