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The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

Danny Lyon

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Danny Lyon
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 16
Filmmaker
Journalist
Photographer
Photojournalist
Brooklyn
New York
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