Vineyards
About the Artist
Photographer Fred Lyon has been called “San Francisco’s Brassai”. He’s also been compared to Cartier Bresson, Atget and Andre Kertez, but all with a San Francisco twist. That’s fine with this lifelong native who happily admits his debt to those icons.
His nonstop career reaches back to the early 1940’s and embraces news, architecture, advertising, wine and food. In the golden years of magazine publishing his picture credits were everywhere from LIFE to VOGUE and beyond. These days find him combing his picture files for galleries, publishers and print collectors. And he’s still excited when he gets a call offering a new project.
The prints that comprise Fred Lyon’s latest series Vineyards will be on exhibition in The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco. The photographs were made over six decades between California and Europe and they document the wine-making process which Fred Lyon has a great passion for along with the stunning landscapes and views of the territories associated with old and new world wines. Many of the photographs on exhibit from the series are in his latest book released by Princeton Architectural Press which Fred will be signing during our opening reception on Thursday, October 24, 2019, from 6 pm until 8 pm.
In addition to Vineyards, we will also be exhibiting a fine selection of Fred Lyon’s post-war San Francisco photographs for which he is well known.
