Robert Lyons Interview

Robert Lyons Interview

Images from Intimate Enemy.

Images from Rodeo.

At Hampshire College, one of Robert’s instructors was Elaine Mayes.

Self-portrait by Elaine Mayes.

Jerome Liebling was another teacher of Robert’s at Hampshire College.

In high school Robert taught Mitch Epstein how to use the darkroom.

Photo by Nina Subin.

Minor White was Robert’s first photography instructor, starting at age 15.

The next-oldest student in Minor White’s workshop was Stephen Shore.

Photo by Nathaniel Paluga.

Robert also mentions photographer Katy Grannan who is from Arlington, MA.

Katy Grannan in Modesto, California, with participants from her film project, The Nine.

Edmond Jabès, the poet, whose writing was important to Robert in the making of his Rwanda work.

Robert talks about the importance of Art Pepper, the alto saxophonist and composer.

Hiroko Komatsu is a photographer in Tokyo working in alternative presentations of the photograph.

Exhibition photo from “Double Constraint,” a solo exhibition by Hiroko Komatsu.

The second photographer from Tokyo referenced by Robert is Osamu Kanemura.

Nan Goldin first presented her series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency as a slide show before it became a book.

William Eggleston’s work 5 x 7 was made in the 1970s with a large-format camera and includes photos made inside nightclubs.

Robert reads a passage from the author Haruki Murakami.