Английская Википедия:Fred Lyon

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Fred Lyon (September 27, 1924 – August 22, 2022) was an American photographer.[1] He was known for shots of foggy San Francisco,[2][3] and photos of San Francisco life from the 1940s to the 1960s.[4][5][6] Lyon worked in different roles within photography, including as a military photographer, a photojournalist, a fashion photographer, landscape photographer, and as a street photographer. His nocturnal San Francisco photography was often compared with Hungarian–French photographer Brassaï.[3]

Early life and education

Fred Lyon was born on September 27, 1924, at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco, California.[2][7] His father had farming interests and a 18,000-acre ranch in the San Joaquin Valley.[8] He was raised in San Carlos and Burlingame.[2][9][7] He got his first camera at age 12.[7] As a teenager he started practicing photography, and at age 15 he got his first job as a photographer's assistant at the Moulin Studios.[8]

After high school at age 17, he enrolled at Art Center School in Los Angeles (now ArtCenter College of Design).[2][7] One summer Lyon studied under Ansel Adams, who taught at ArtCenter.[2]

Career

After the Pearl Harbor attack, around 1943, Lyon dropped out of college and enrolled in the United States Navy with the intention of becoming a pilot,[7] but instead he worked as a military photographer.[8][2] In his role as military photographer, Lyon photographed the Roosevelt family portrait,[7] and was witness to Harry S. Truman’s first day as President.[10]

After the war he lived in New York City, working as a fashion photographer.[2] In either 1947 or 1948, he had his first photo magazine assignment for Homes and Gardens.[8] He briefly worked for fashion houses in New York City, as well as worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Glamour, and Life magazines.[4] His first wife was model Anne (née Murray), who posed in many of his early images.[2]

The couple eventually moved to San Francisco.[2] In 1949, he had a solo exhibition titled, Photographs by Fred G. Lyon, Jr. at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[11] In the 1950s, Lyon socialized with Richard Diebenkorn and other painters within the Bay Area Figurative Movement.[3] He would take photographs of San Francisco landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower, hotels in Nob Hill and cityscapes, which were often highlighting the fog.[2][10] Lyon had a love of both old San Francisco, as well as the newer version of the city.[10]

Lyon also had a special interest in photographing vineyards and wineries in nearby Napa and Sonoma.[10] In 2013, the film documentary Fred Lyon: Living Through the Lens was made by filmmaker Michael House.[5]

His last photo was taken when he was in his 90s in 2017 of the 500 Club bar sign in the Mission District.[7]

Personal life and death

Шаблон:Quote box Lyon's first wife Anne (née Murray), a fashion model, died in 1989.[2] They had two sons, Michael and Gordon.[2] In the 1970s Lyon lived in Sausalito, California.[8]

In 2003, Lyon married interior designer Penelope Whelan Rozis.[2][12] For many years he lived in the Cow Hollow neighborhood of San Francisco.[13][10]

Lyon died on August 22, 2022, in his home in San Francisco, he had lung cancer.[2][10] SFGate remembered him as someone with "one of the longest, most prolific careers of any 20th century photographer."[10][14]

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