Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

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Dustjacket fresh and complete without missing parts; triangle crease at the top of the front side, light trace of use. Minor edge wear, light foxing to cover versos and half-title page, else very good in pictorial wraps. If you want to look at a front cover and read the blurb Lawrence has written for it then we can send you a phone picture on request. Danny Lyon's important first book, a documentary photo-essay on the Chicago Outlaws, a "motorcycle racing club," with texts from interviews with members of the gang.

Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Lyon’s work demonstrates humanitarian interests, advocacy, and “saturation reporting.In October 2018, Jeff Nichols revealed he had been thinking about making a biker film set in the 1960s for five years, although he did not at that stage have a script, and mentioned the idea on the set of his short film Long Way Back Home to Michael Shannon, who reportedly told him "You've been talking about that damn idea for so long. The song is directly inspired by photojournalist Danny Lyon’s book The Bikeriders, a collection of photographs and interviews with members of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club in the mid 60’s.

The Bikeriders is one of the few, if not the only, non-sensationalized books having to do with outlaw motorcycle clubs. For this project Lyon photographed and ultimately joined the Chicago Outlaws, a motorcycle racing club more interested in the emerging American biker culture than in winning on the track. This is a nice clean copy, the binding is strong, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty.Often compared to Robert Franks' "The Americans" or Larry Clark's "Tulsa" for its' grit and immersion in the subject, Danny Lyon’s book of photography was sort of a companion piece to Hunter Thompson's "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga" - firsthand New Journalism reporting about life on "The Edge", seemingly casual but with a whiff of latent violence in every breath, ready to catch a spark and ignite. With a new introduction by the author, The Bikeriders rides again, capturing like never before the dawn of the counterculture era.

Around this time, he hitchhiked south to Cairo, Illinois, where he photographed his first demonstration and met members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the youth wing of the civil rights movement. On a Lucero fan note, I'm noticing on this read through that Benny isn't even a central character in the text, but he's the most Lucero fan character, a born loser with a sort of charisma that makes him hard not to like. The chopper riding heroes of the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club Danny Lyon photographed were all self-styled loners in the American vein, with names like Renegade, Cowboy, Crazy Charlie, Sparky, Rawhide and Gaucho. Telluride Awards Analysis: 'The Bikeriders' Opens Fest, Puts Jodie Comer in Hunt for First Oscar Nom". Work on The Bikeriders began in earnest when, at the invitation of a mechanic repairing his Triumph, he attended a meeting of the Chicago Outlaws and joined them as a member.

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). You want to see just what its like just step out into a nice big old fat ocean all by yourself in a little rowboat and see just how microscopic you are. Alliances were formed with clubs, sometimes referred to as gangs, of cycle groups in the area and those that often visited Indiana, for some reason.

On December 8, it was announced that Focus had scheduled the film for a theatrical release in the United States on June 21, 2024. Ein amerikanischer Fotobuch-Klassiker der 60er, eines der wichtigsten Bücher in der Geschcihte 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). The confidence they enjoyed from the outsiders who allowed them access to an insular tribe was provisional. First edition; 8vo (234 x 158 mm, 9¼ x 6¼ in); black-and-white photographs in offset, photographs and text by Danny Lyon, light foxing to preliminary and end pages, occasional light marks, light toning to edges, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in silver on spine and rear, light wear to extremities, leaning slightly, grey endpapers, lightly marked, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in black, blue, and orange, small strip of adhesive residue on verso from historic jacket protector, light wear, slight curl and soft creasing to top and bottom edges, a very good copy; ix, [i], 94pp. Petit accident à peine perceptible en marges des pages 48 et 49 ainsi qu'une déchirure fermée de 8 mm.The cycle could always be in a state of repair, the cycle didn't have to run and, the best one yet, it didn't even have to be in your possession.