Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

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Later, Lyon began creating his own books. His first was a study of outlaw motorcyclists in the collection The Bikeriders (1968), where Lyon photographed, traveled with and shared the lifestyle of bikers in the American Midwest from 1963 to 1967. [12] [13] Living in a rented apartment in Woodlawn, Chicago, Lyon followed the Chicago chapter of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in an "attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider". Seeking advice from Hunter S. Thompson, who spent a year with the Hells Angels for his own book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Thompson warned Lyon that he should "get to hell out of that club unless it's absolutely necessary for photo action." [14] [15] Lyon said of Thompson's response: "He advised me not to join the Outlaws and to wear a helmet. I joined the club and seldom wore a helmet". He was a full-fledged member of the Outlaws between 1966 and 1967. [15] On his time as an Outlaws member, Lyon said: "I was kind of horrified by the end. I remember I had a big disagreement with this guy who rolled out a huge Nazi flag as a picnic rug to put our beers on. By then I had realised that some of these guys were not so romantic after all". [14] In 1969, when Lyon returned from his work in Texas to New York City, and had no place to live, the photographer Robert Frank, famous by then for his 1958 book The Americans, took him in. Lyon had met Frank two years earlier, at the end of a Happening that Lyon was part of, in New York City. Lyon lived with the Frank family for six months in the city, in an apartment on West 86th St. [18] a b c Seeger, Bob (1989). Everybody Says Freedom. New York u.a: Norton. pp.87–100. ISBN 0393306046. Danny Lyon: Message to the Future” will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 17–Sept. 25; travels to the de Young Museum, San Francisco, Nov. 5, 2016–Mar. 12, 2017; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, May 20–Aug. 27, 2017; C/O Berlin Foundation, Sept. 15–Dec. 10, 2017.

The Bikeriders is based on the 1968 photo-book of the same name by renowned photographer Danny Lyon. Lyon is one of the key figures in the New Journalism movement of the 1960s. Lyon's career focused on documenting often unseen aspects of American culture. The Bikeriders, inspired by Lyon's work, will tell the fictional story of a Midwestern motorcycle club showing the group's small origins and its development into a gang over the course of a decade. The film stars Oscar-nominee Austin Butler, fresh off of his Elvis role along with The Last Duel star Jodie Comer and Venom's Tom Hardy. A Look at Austin Butler's Latest RoleNichols creates a wide tapestry with The Bikeriders, drawing upon midwestern nostalgia and crafting characters from photographs and song lyrics, but this is both its strength and its downfall as the emotional heart of the story gets lost amongst all its formal choices. But both the book and the film go deeper than that because the works are supported by the interviews Lyon conducted which were transcribed and those words contain harsh truths about America. Last fall, while I was working as a book designer for the Aperture Foundation, the photography nonprofit, a first-edition copy of of Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders from 1968 was placed on my desk in a plastic folder. Nichols told me his dad was raised by a single mom. “And so they came out of a very working-class place. That’s where our grandparents lived. That’s where we grew up.”

Austin Butler as “Benny” in 20th Century Studios’ THE BIKERIDERS. Photo credit: Kyle Kaplan. All Rights Reserved.Photographer of all things rebellious and quietly wild, Phaidon's retrospective covers nearly 7 decades of Danny Lyon's work and includes some never-before-seen images and mixed media work, along with written commentary by the man behind the lens."— TIME LightBox Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2010. ISBN 9781931885881. Glynn, Jennifer (December 8, 2022). "Austin Butler's 'The Bikeriders' Wraps Filming". Collider . Retrieved February 6, 2023.

This unconventional monograph of the work of photographer, writer, and filmmaker Lyon is a revealing hybrid memoir in text and images... Reproductions of his striking photographs are interspersed with collages of documents and images, as well as evocative writing about the personal, political, and professional moments that defines his career."— Publishers Weekly The Bikeriders will also play a headline gala at the BFI London Film Festival on October 5, with subsequent showings October 6 and 9. The 20th Century Studios title opens in U.S. theaters on December 1. Patton, Phil (7 March 2013). "Two Looks at Danny Lyon's 'Bikeriders' Photos". Wheels.blogs.nytimes.com . Retrieved 28 November 2017.

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Conversations With The Dead: Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054. ISBN 9780714870519. Digitally remastered facsimile edition with a new afterword by Lyon. O'Hagan, Sean (20 April 2014). "Danny Lyon's inside shots". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 4 November 2015. The Bikeriders is set in a world in which the increasingly careworn gang leader competes for the affection of his toughest follower with this man’s girlfriend, while at the same time grooming him as his heir. Yet this is a group where the biker king – whatever his plans for a dauphin – can be challenged for the crown by any subordinate according to the rules of his own violence-democracy, the incumbent gruffly asking: fists or knives? Nichols’ cast nails the right mixture of toughness and vulnerability; these guys are all hard as hell (a poor choice of words for a leather-bound movie with so little homoeroticism), but they need each other like a comfort blanket. Nichols regular Michael Shannon is a scary-fun delight as a “Pinko”-hating outcast who feels rejected by his country, Boyd Holbrook brings some breezy charm to his role as the group’s resident mechanic, and Norman Reedus eventually rolls in from California with dirt on his teeth and a dangerous agenda (imagine the dumpster creature from “Mulholland Drive” riding a Harley-Davidson). Meanwhile, the ever-unsubtle Emory Cohen reins things in as a bug-eating Vandal who’s just in it for a laugh. 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.