Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

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Ein amerikanischer Fotobuch-Klassiker der 60er, eines der wichtigsten Bücher in der Geschichte der Fotografie: Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, Seite 190/191; Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, Seite 256; Hasselblad Center, The Open Book, Seite 236/237).

and the Altamont Speedway rock festival murder, there was a lot of macho charisma attached to outlaw bikers. The journal-size title features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when Danny Lyon was a member of the Outlaws gang. Lyon began photographing dirt track motorcycle races while at the University of Chicago, purchasing a bike and attending meetings across the Midwest.This 2005 Lucero song (Bikeriders) based on select photos/interviews from Danny Lyon's 1967 book (The Bikeriders) is, likewise, the shared-basis of the opening narration for the 2023 Hollywood film (The Bikeriders).

In 1968, just before Easy Rider roared its way into American consciousness, Danny Lyon published The Bikeriders . That September, Toby Wallace, Emory Cohen, Beau Knapp, Karl Glusman, and Happy Anderson joined the ensemble cast. I once had motorcycle fever, so in 1966 I and a half dozen others founded a motorcycle gang sometimes referred to as a club.Danny Lyon is a photographer who interviewed and took portraits of bikers in the Midwest during the late 1960s. This is a nice clean copy, the binding is strong, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. The Outlaws were formed in the 1930s in Illinois, so they are among the oldest of the 1% outlaw clubs, and the largest in the Midwest. Widely exhibited and collected, Lyon has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships twice and National Endowment for the Arts grants ten times.

It tells a fictional story inspired by the 1967 photo-book of the same name by Danny Lyon depicting the lives of the Outlaws MC, a Chicago-based motorcycle club. Wish so much of the book wasn't taken up with interviews of the bikers, forming a loose history of the scene. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Lyon’s work demonstrates humanitarian interests, advocacy, and “saturation reporting. They would never have as much skin in the game, but their provisional status membership in that tribe was highly valued by them. With images and interviews that are as raw, alive, and dramatic today as they were three decades ago, this new edition includes startling new 15 additional black-and-white photographs and 14 color prints--long thought missing--of works originally published in black-and-white.I didn't see "The Bikeriders" until years after it was published, when I ran across it in a college library. The Bikeriders premiered as the opening film of the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023. Original black cloth with red lettering on cover, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, red lettering on spine. The text part is a series of brief snippets or interviews with a cast of characters and sharing some of their experiences that are not connected or give away much information about anything in particular.

Danny Lyon, a member of Magnum Photos, documents his experience as a member of the infamous 1960's Chicago motorcycle gang "The Outlaws".

One of the iconic american photobooks of the sixties, one of the most important photobooks ever published: Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 190/191; Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, page 256; Hasselblad Center, The Open Book, page 236/237). The facsimile edition of Lyon's now classic, seminal work of photo-journalism, originally issued in 1968.