DANY LYON – THE BIKERIDERS
2024-06-24THE BIKERIDERS explores Lyon’s experience as a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club from 1963-1967. In his words it was an “attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider”. Lyon began riding with and documenting the Outlaws at twenty-one years old while an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago. The publication of his seminal book The Bikeriders (1968) introduced a style of documentary photography and reporting that placed him in the forefront of the New Journalism movement in which the photographer is immersed in and participating with the subject being documented. His work tells the story of a subversive motorcycle club and endures as a time capsule of 1960s Americana. His form of New Journalism with its intimacy, transparency, and humanism was radical.
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2024
Robert Klein Gallery
38 Newbury Street
Boston
MA 02116
