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...
First published in 1968, and now back in print for the first time in ten years, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and personalities...
Danny Lyon, who was the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, tells the compelling story of how black and white young people forged one of the most successful grassroots organizations in American history. His pictures, taken in the early 1960s, and his text, written thirty years later, chronicle the southern civil rights movement at the height of its power.
Danny Lyon, who was the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, tells the compell...
