The 59th Street Bridge photographed by Danny Lyon, in 1974, for the Environmental Protection Agency's Project Documerica, now housed in the National Archives. Lyon once responded to an interviewer's question about artistic influences:
Influences? Once in Paris a filmmaker said I was 'the most American person he ever met.' Perhaps because I have very bad manners and a heavy New York City (Queens) accent. As the child of two immigrants born in Brooklyn and growing up in Queens I felt "as American as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway."
Another Lyon photograph from the National Archives. "Automobile in second ward, El Paso's Chicano neighborhood, South El Paso, Texas" (1972). For more from the National Archives go here.
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