The Bikeriders

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Kroll, Justin (September 1, 2022). " 'The Bikeriders': Emory Cohen, Toby Wallace & Others Join Ensemble Of Jeff Nichols Pic". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved September 1, 2022. Chapman, Wilson (August 4, 2022). "Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy to Star in Jeff Nichols Film 'The Bikeriders' ". Variety . Retrieved September 7, 2023. Austin Butler as “Benny” in 20th Century Studios’ THE BIKERIDERS. Photo credit: Kyle Kaplan. All Rights Reserved.

a b "50th Telluride Film Festival - Program Guide" (PDF). Telluride Film Festival. p.7. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 30, 2023 . Retrieved August 31, 2023.a b Feinberg, Scott (August 31, 2023). "Telluride Awards Analysis: 'The Bikeriders' Opens Fest, Puts Jodie Comer in Hunt for First Oscar Nom". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 1, 2023.

More than just another monograph or retrospective photo book... A remarkably raw and compelling journey."— Faded and Blurred

I'd recommend reading a few sections, lingering over a few photos, then repeat until finished. The rhythm of the text can take a minute to get ahold of. 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 b "Photographing the Civil Rights Movement: Danny Lyon and Julian Bond". Proof. 20 January 2014. Archived from the original on January 24, 2014 . Retrieved 2015-11-16. Lyon befriended many of the prisoners. The book also includes texts taken from prison records, letters from convicts, and inmate artwork. In particular, the book focuses on the case of Billy McCune, a convicted rapist whose death sentence was eventually commuted to life in prison. In the foreword, Lyon describes McCune as a diagnosed psychotic, who one evening, while awaiting execution, "cut his penis off to the root and, placing it in a cup, passed it between the bars to the guard." Nichols frames the story via Benny’s girlfriend Kathy (Jodie Comer), who’s being interviewed for Lyon’s book. A regular, plain-speaking gal, she’s our way into this world of bike-meets, bar fights and booze-soaked parties. “I used to be respectable,” she mutters, at one point, but her love for Benny, a sensitive bruiser if ever there was one, trumps everything.

After being accepted as the photographer for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement. [5] Conversations with the Dead (1971) was published with full cooperation of the Texas Department of Corrections. Lyon photographed in six prisons over a 14-month period in 1967–68. The series was printed in book form in 1971 by Holt publishing. The introduction points to a statement of purpose that the penal system of Texas is symbolic for incarceration everywhere. He states, "I tried with whatever power I had to make a picture of imprisonment as distressing as I knew it to be in reality." All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, [4] meaning that the photographer has become immersed in, and is a participant of, the documented subject. He is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty. Three boys and 'A Train' graffiti in Brooklyn's Lynch Park in New York City." By Danny Lyon, Brooklyn, NY, July 1974

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The Bikeriders is an iconic work of modern photojournalism that gives a raw and lively insight into the biker culture of the 1960’s, captured between 1963 and 1967 when the young Danny Lyon immersed himself completely into the lives and culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club. a b c Seeger, Bob (1989). Everybody Says Freedom. New York u.a: Norton. pp.87–100. ISBN 0393306046. Unlike the heroes of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider – a film which is to provide employment for one of the group – the bikeriders have no end or quest in view. They just drift around, assemble for “picnics” in green spaces they churn into mud during races and get into fights with other gangs with whom they later cordially have beers. A lot of their time is spent almost catatonically hanging out at a bar in which there is a big discussion about the costs involved in installing a phone behind the bar which their membership subs would entitle them to use on club business. Set to popular guitar riffs and snappy vocals, The Bikeriders chronicles the lives of fictional motorcycle gang the Chicago Vandals, intercut by interviews years later telling the story. It simultaneously mythologises and deconstructs its characters in a fascinating way that mixes fact and fiction but ultimately takes the sting out of the film’s drama.