Young Mechanic, from "Knoxville, Tennessee" / Danny Lyon

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Accession Number: 2013/2.342
Title: Young Mechanic, from "Knoxville, Tennessee"
Artist: Danny Lyon
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: b. 1942
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: 1967; printed 2010
Credit Line: Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling
Inscription: signed, dated and with the "Bleak Beauty" stamp on verso
Dimensions: 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Physical Description: Young man, shirtless in front, looking at the camera. His hands are in front of his chest and he is extremely dirty. Thre is a man in the back seated in a chair against the wall, smiling and there is a payphone on the wall.
Primary Keywords: automobiles; boys
Secondary Keywords: freewheeled vehicles; freewheeled vehicles by form or function; land vehicles; land vehicles by form; objects we use; passenger vehicles; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by gender; transportation vehicles; vehicles
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 2456 x 3634
File Size: 333 KB
Record: 2013/2.342
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.342/2013_2.342.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - American Road Trip (65); 0 - Ellsworth, W17 - The Southern Novel in Historical Context - object study (11); 0 - The U.S. South (63); Adolescence (124); American Adolescence (30); Cars and car culture (76); Hetzel, f16 - portraits (23); O - Labor Activism in the US (221); Race, gender, class and American identity (393); Transportation (392); Underdogs, everyday heroes, antiheroes (53); Work and workers (328); Y - UMMA - Gender and Aging (190); Y - UMMA - Gender and aging, the eldery (64)

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Full citation: "Young Mechanic, from "Knoxville, Tennessee"; Danny Lyon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2013-sl-2.342/2013_2.342.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.