This is a nice clean copy, the binding is strong, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook and Damon Herriman Latest To Join Jeff Nichols The Bikeriders At New Regency". Photos like this, from this decade, especially of people who probably were not destined to see 90, are starting to look like artifacts. It was just cool to see and read real people's lives and accounts of things that they've been through. 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.

Dustjacket fresh and complete without missing parts; triangle crease at the top of the front side, light trace of use.Widely exhibited and collected, Lyon has been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships twice and National Endowment for the Arts grants ten times. With a preface for the new edition and the introduction to the 1968 edition by Danny Lyon as well as narratives describing the bikers' life on trips throughout he Midwest and the Southern States of America.

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. I didn't see "The Bikeriders" until years after it was published, when I ran across it in a college library. 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. 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.Lyon's photo book documenting the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club delivers some of the most iconic images associated with biker culture, including the indelible cover image additionally represented here by an original vintage print from the collection of Steve Dalber, Lyon's roommate at the University of Chicago. 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.

They would never have as much skin in the game, but their provisional status membership in that tribe was highly valued by them. In 1968, just before Easy Rider roared its way into American consciousness, Danny Lyon published The Bikeriders . Lyon's important first book, a collection of black and white photographs of the bikers from the Chicago Outlaws. Authentic, personal, and uncompromising, Lyon’s depiction of individuals on the outskirts of society offers a gritty yet humanistic view that subverts the commercialized image of Americana. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group's unique way of life.Minor edge wear, light foxing to cover versos and half-title page, else very good in pictorial wraps. An interesting look into the counter-culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club in the 1950’s and 60’s. As with Lyon's other publications, text is an integral part of THE BIKERIDERS; stories from the photographer as well as the voices of a number of bikeriders situate the photographs within the context of the biker subculture and the culture at large. The Outlaws were formed in the 1930s in Illinois, so they are among the oldest of the 1% outlaw clubs, and the largest in the Midwest. I always picture the 1950s/1960s in a particular way but these photos could have been taken yesterday.

Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, Lyon’s work demonstrates humanitarian interests, advocacy, and “saturation reporting.The journal-size title features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when Danny Lyon was a member of the Outlaws gang.