Signed; Danny Lyon - The Bikeriders - 2014

First published in 1968 and reissued for the first time in ten years, *The Bikeriders* offers a firsthand look at the stories and personalities of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. This newspaper-sized volume features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews with Lyon, conducted between 1963 and 1967 while he was a member of the Outlaws gang. Authentic, personal, and uncompromising, Lyon’s portrayal of individuals on the fringes of society offers a scathing yet human perspective that subverts more commercialized portrayals of America. Close to the documentary style of the New Journalism of the 1960s, made famous by writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Lyon’s photography is reportage by saturation in all its glory. The Bikeriders is a landmark publication of the 1960s counterculture, crucially defining the vision of the outlaw biker as seen in Easy Rider and countless other films and photo books.