The bikeriders / Danny Lyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyon, Danny.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motorcycling.

Physical Description:

xi, 96 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Santa Fe, N.M. : Twin Palms Publishers, 1997.

Summary:

In 1968, a small and unassuming book of photographs featuring America's bikers was published. Little note was taken of its release, and it rather quietly disappeared. Today The Bikeriders is recognized as a seminal work of documentary photography by one of a new generation of photographers. In it an iconographic landscape of violence, freedom, drugs and sex unfolded before Danny Lyon's lens -- Brando and Dean made real, at once exhilarating and disappointing, magnetic and frightening. The accompanying text includes an introduction by the artist and some of the bikers' stories told in interviews and gritty first-person accounts. This is a reissue of Danny Lyon's long-out-of-print and much-sought-after first book, treasured both as a cult classic and a standard of photo journalism. Updated and printed in sheet-fed gravure, The Bikeriders is here presented for the first time as Danny Lyon had originally envisioned it.

ISBN:

0944092462

0944092470

OCLC:

38735642