At a time when photography was largely excluded from the origin of art, visionaries like Danny Lyon turned to their own backyards to document insidious government practices such as the important domain in his pioneering monograph from 1967. The destruction of Lower ManhattanWhat can be seen in the show prominently. Lyon, who, in addition to the civil rights movement, worked as a member of the student, non -violent coordination committee, used photography as an instrument to tell the power.
“Dr. King understood that,” says Best, who indicates photos that were made on Washington in March 1963 and in the campaign of the poor people of 1968. “You will see how these unknown photographers were embedded in the movement and how to use photography to talk about these events.”
But with the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s, the empire struck back and planted the seeds for the oligarchy under the leadership of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. In a section with the title “Everyday life of the servant courses”, the seeds of today are best observed. “It is a real turn of the idea of working as a community, and working with your hands is personally enriched and enjoyable,” says best. “There is a shift in photography: it is dead on the street and at lunch times – about the world of work that can be seen in the distance.”
While American job reflects the radical shifts over the 20th century and the new millennium. The exhibition reveals the trembling thread from which the working class is hung up. Until 1940, the union leaders understood that they had to support and defend the work through the relentless regression of corporate interests. “You have talked about how the cost of living has increased so much that people cannot survive, and here we are today.”