[9 October 2025 from 6:30-7:30 pm] The Museum’s Hirsch Library brings together Danny Lyon and Russet Lederman to explore the impact that Lyon’s work has made on both our culture at large and the development of photobooks as a genre.
Danny Lyon is among the most influential documentary photographers of the past six decades. Known for his immersive approach, Lyon’s intensive investigations have resulted in numerous seminal photobooks on subjects as diverse as the Civil Rights Movement, a Chicago motorcycle club, the destruction of Lower Manhattan, Native American reservations, and the Texas prison system. Lyon is joined in this conversation by Russet Lederman, New York City-based writer, editor, photobook collector, and co-founder of 10×10 Photobooks. Lederman is co-coordinator of the Flashpoint! exhibition.
This conversation is offered in conjunction with the opening of Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present, an exhibition and reading room that presents a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals, and alternative newspapers addressing protest and resistance from the past 75 years.
A book signing and opening reception for the Flashpoint! exhibition follow in the Hirsch Library.
Lynn Wyatt Theater
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Houston, TX, 77005
Thursday, 9 October 2026 from 6:30 – 7:30 pm