A Loud Song

This is the only book Danny Seymour produced and the first book published by Ralph Gibson's Lustrum Press; a landmark in the new personal documentary style of photographic book-making. The content is presented scrapbook/photo-album style with photos of friends and family and facsimile handwritten captions. Those friends include Jessica Lange and Robert Frank, with whom he made a number of films including CS Blues, for the Rolling Stones. Includes reproductions of work by his father, the photographer Maurice Seymour, and an image of his mother by Aaron Siskind. About a year or so after publication, Danny Seymour disappeared in the Caribbean, presumed murdered. Photographs by Danny Seymour and others; edited by Ralph Gibson. Staple-bound; 56 pages; b&w reproductions throughout; 10 x 10 inches.