We had a place to party in Lafayette, an old four story warehouse, where we got together with our friends. Lyon began photographing dirt track motorcycle races while at the University of Chicago, purchasing a bike and attending meetings across the Midwest. You want to see just what its like just step out into a nice big old fat ocean all by yourself in a little rowboat and see just how microscopic you are. 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.

They were one of the Big Four outlaw clubs, whose membership ballooned in the 1960s, the others being the West Coast based Hell's Angels, the Southwestern Bandidos, and the East Coast Pagans.Ein amerikanischer Fotobuch-Klassiker der 60er, eines der wichtigsten Bücher in der Geschichte der Fotografie: Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, Seite 190/191; Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, The Photobook, volume 1, Seite 256; Hasselblad Center, The Open Book, Seite 236/237).

The richly printed black and white photographs are both allegorical and exquisitely composed, yet at the same time have the feel and grit of being shot from the hip.The song is a look at the tumultuous relationship of two of its subjects, club member Benny Bauer and his wife Kathy, as well as a window into the life of the club itself. and the Altamont Speedway rock festival murder, there was a lot of macho charisma attached to outlaw bikers. For this project Lyon photographed and ultimately joined the Chicago Outlaws, a motorcycle racing club more interested in the emerging American biker culture than in winning on the track. Work on The Bikeriders began in earnest when, at the invitation of a mechanic repairing his Triumph, he attended a meeting of the Chicago Outlaws and joined them as a member. His many books include The Movement (1964), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), Conversations with the Dead (1971), Knave of Hearts (1999), Like a Thief’s Dream (2007), and Deep Sea Diver (2011).

Lyon's photo book documenting the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club delivers some of the most iconic images associated with biker culture, including the indelible cover image additionally represented here by an original vintage print from the collection of Steve Dalber, Lyon's roommate at the University of Chicago. Later, in a letter to a prospective publisher, he described the Outlaws as 'probably the only thing like cowboys left in America'. On December 8, it was announced that Focus had scheduled the film for a theatrical release in the United States on June 21, 2024. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, Norman Reedus, and Tom Hardy.

Wish so much of the book wasn't taken up with interviews of the bikers, forming a loose history of the scene. An inside look, in photos and the bikers' own words, of the members of the Chicago Outlaws, a renegade motorcycle club, of their lives and lifestyle, by an award-winning photo-journalist who was a club member. The journal-size title features original black-and-white photographs and transcribed interviews made from 1963 to 1967, when Danny Lyon was a member of the Outlaws gang. The pictures are intriguing and together with the stories, the reader gets a clear view into the lifestyle of the motorcycle club at such a pivotal time in American history. I once had motorcycle fever, so in 1966 I and a half dozen others founded a motorcycle gang sometimes referred to as a club.