I once had motorcycle fever, so in 1966 I and a half dozen others founded a motorcycle gang sometimes referred to as a club. This is a nice clean copy, the binding is strong, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. pages, Introduction de Danny Lyon, 48 photographies n/b et 17 extraits d'entretiens, réalisé par Danny Lyon avec des motards, en fin d'ouvrage. 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 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).

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. A nice copy of this classic which is the loose basis for an upcoming movie with Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, and Norman Reedus. The first printing of this new edition of The Bikeriders is limited to 3,850 case bound copies and a special slipcased edition of 150 autographed copies.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. Dustjacket fresh and complete without missing parts; triangle crease at the top of the front side, light trace of use. 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. 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. My motorcycle fever ended on September 19, 1967 when I rode my motorcycle into a tree after my headlamp went out.

Danny Lyon (born in New York, 1942) is highly regarded as one of the most influential documentary photographers of the last five decades. But once you do you are treated to these small stories of people living in a world that most of us will never encounter or engage with otherwise. 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.More a photography book than anything but also has interviews with the people who grace these pages. The Animals in Lafayette, a gang of old men who rode Harley-Davidson's from Indy, The Outlaws from Detroit, and Hells Angels, were some of our first friends. Put in context of the mid-sixties, Danny Lyon fills an empty chasm left between 'The Wild One' and 'Easy Rider', documenting an important epoch of American subculture.

I didn't see "The Bikeriders" until years after it was published, when I ran across it in a college library. 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. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Norman Reedus, and Tom Hardy.First pd in 1968, The Bikeriders explores firsthand the stories and characters of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. In 1968, just before Easy Rider roared its way into American consciousness, Danny Lyon published The Bikeriders .

The threat of violence was an existential fact for the initiated, and the reporters’ option to step away to safety put them at an arm's length. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Lyon’s work demonstrates humanitarian interests, advocacy, and “saturation reporting.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 to: the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club.