Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

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Light wear, sunfading on spine, small bit of loss on top and bottom of spine, slight scuffing and bumping on sides of wraps and text block. 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). Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. 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.

Telluride Awards Analysis: 'The Bikeriders' Opens Fest, Puts Jodie Comer in Hunt for First Oscar Nom".An interesting look into the counter-culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the 1950’s and 60’s. Work of photojournalism sharing the lifestyle of bikers in the American Midwest from 1963 to 1967, by American photographer Danny Lyon; inspiration for the 2023 film of the same name starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy. We had a place to party in Lafayette, an old four story warehouse, where we got together with our friends. The Bikeriders is one of the few, if not the only, non-sensationalized books having to do with outlaw motorcycle clubs.

A red dot to the top edge (possibly a remainder mark) and a very slight smudge on the front board, very near fine in a near fine dustwrapper with three small, internally repaired tears.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. 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.

First pd in 1968, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Lyon's important first book, a collection of black and white photographs of the bikers from the Chicago Outlaws. 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.

This book is responsible for a good share of popularising their high speed abandon and raucous camaraderie. If you don't get shoulder to shoulder an' learn to roll with the waves you're gonna get either walked on or awful frustated.

Later, in a letter to a prospective publisher, he described the Outlaws as 'probably the only thing like cowboys left in America'. Photos like this, from this decade, especially of people who probably were not destined to see 90, are starting to look like artifacts. The richly printed black and white photographs are both allegorical and exquisitely composed, yet at the same time have the feel and grit of being shot from the hip. More a photography book than anything but also has interviews with the people who grace these pages.On December 8, it was announced that Focus had scheduled the film for a theatrical release in the United States on June 21, 2024. A seminal work of modern photojournalism, this landmark collection of photographs and interviews documents the abandon and risk implied in the name of the gang Lyon belonged the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club. They were one of the Big Four outlaw clubs, whose membership ballooned in the 1960s, the others being the West Coast based Hell's Angels, the Southwestern Bandidos, and the East Coast Pagans. 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.