DANNY LYON The Bikeriders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2021
- DANNY LYON - The Bikeriders - New York: Aperture, 2014.
Publicado pela primeira vez em 1968, e agora novamente impresso pela primeira vez em dez anos, The Bikeriders explora em primeira mão as histórias e personalidades do Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Este volume do tamanho de um jornal apresenta fotografias originais em preto e branco e entrevistas transcritas por Lyon, feitas de 1963 a 1967, quando ele era membro da gangue Outlaws. Autêntica, pessoal e intransigente, a representação de Lyon de indivíduos na periferia da sociedade oferece uma perspectiva corajosa, mas humana, que subverte os tratamentos mais comercializados da cultura americana. Semelhante ao estilo documentário do Novo Jornalismo da década de 1960, que ficou famoso por escritores como Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion e Tom Wolfe, a fotografia de Lyon é um relato de saturação no seu melhor. The Bikeriders é uma publicação de referência da contracultura dos anos 1960, definindo crucialmente a visão do motociclista fora da lei como encontrada em Easy Rider e inúmeros outros filmes e fotolivros.
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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 1960s-era New Journalism made famous by writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Lyon's photography is saturation reporting at its finest. The Bikeriders is a touchstone publication of 1960s counterculture, crucially defining the vision of the outlaw biker as found in Easy Rider and countless other movies and photobooks.
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❤I have this.... Mesmerizing ❤️ Love it is gonna love the movie and I heard that a book will be born of the movie. Am so happy & excited 😊
this book is awsome, picked it up 10 years ago, now super excited about the film. Lucero did a song based on the book too.
review: it's the Good, Bad, & Ugly- the vintage photos are phenomenal. the interviews are 60/40. the best ones are "Meeting the Angels", "Drag Bike", "Chopped Scooter", and "Chase"- all involving technical aspects of the bikes, and high speed chases. Kathy's account of "Red Dress" is remarkable. So is Cal's account of "Army", and Johnny's "on funerals". However, on some of the interviews you find yourself just reading about how dysfunctional some of these people were. Drinking wine until you wreck your bike, end up in the hospital, and drinking wine and beer in the hospital they snuck in for you ? that's just moronic stupidity, asinine self destruction. "Picnic" about how filthy, disgusting one can be, eating a caterpillar, climbing a hill with a chopper, wrecking, vomiting on yourself, uh...that's cool ? It's not even worth repeating. One guy's many attempts to join the Marines but keeps not being able to get a ride there sober ? It's not attractive historic read material. It projects a junkyard life image of slummin' it. Not the open road with your hair blowing in the wind to the rumble of a V-twin. some of these guys were real losers. Yet, there is enough there for a good movie, the trailer looked really good, and I look forward to it....and yes, I'd not want the author to leave out one word, or change a thing, cuz it's 100% HONEST and TRUTHFUL. overall great work. I'd love to own, work on, ride one of those vintage bikes. awesome. thanks for adding the extra pics to the newest edition.