This World Is Not My Home: Danny Lyon Photographs is an exhibition of 54 photographs and photographic montages from 1962 to the present that traces the evolution of the career of this dynamic artist based in New York and New Mexico.

A leading creative figure of the 1960s American street photography movement, Lyon distinguished himself from peers like Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander through his direct engagement with his subjects and his concern for those on the margins of society. His goal at the outset of his career, he says, was “to destroy Life magazine” by presenting powerful, real alternatives to the hollow pictures and stories permeating American mass media in that era of conformity.

In the process he created thousands of images of striking psychological, political and aesthetic power. Drawn from the artist's studio and the Menil's collection of 246 photographs by Lyon, the exhibition features images from important bodies of work.

On view through July 29.