The Bikeriders

Danny Lyon
9781597112642 / 159711264X       
The Bikeriders

The Bikeriders

Danny Lyon
9781597112642 / 159711264X       
Publisher Aperture 2014
Edition Hardcover , 94 pages
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First published in 1968, and now back in print for the first time in ten years, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and personalities of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. This journal-size volume features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews by Lyon, made from 1963 to 1967, when he was a member of the Outlaws gang. Authentic, personal and uncompromising, Lyon’s depiction of individuals on the outskirts of society offers a gritty yet humane perspective that subverts more commercialized treatments of Americana. Akin to the documentary style of 1960s-era New Journalism made famous by writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Lyon’s photography is saturation reporting at its finest. The Bikeriders is a touchstone publication of 1960s counterculture, crucially defining the vision of the outlaw biker as found in Easy Rider and countless other movies and photobooks.Danny Lyon (born 1942) is one of the most influential documentary photographers of the last five decades. His many books include The Movement (1964), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), Conversations with the Dead (1971), Knave of Hearts (1999), Like a Thief’s Dream (2007) and Deep Sea Diver (2011). Widely exhibited and collected, Lyon has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships twice and National Endowment for the Arts grants ten times.

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Book title The Bikeriders
Photographer Danny Lyon
ISBN 10 159711264X        / 1-59711-264-X       
ISBN 13 9781597112642 / 978-1-59711-264-2
Publisher Aperture
Publish date May 2014
Publish year 2014
Book format Hardcover
Pages 94 pages
Dimensions 16 x 23,5 cm / 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches

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