Facsimile of the 1968 original edition, a photo classic published for the first time in French, The Bikeriders takes us into the heart of the Chicago Outlaws Club. 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.

Authentic, personal, and uncompromising, Lyon’s depiction of individuals on the outskirts of society. 

Danny Lyon photographed these bikers from 1963 to 1967, when he was a member of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club, founded in 1950. He chronicled the world of early bikers. He traveled with them, sharing their way of life on the road, at rallies and races, and in the privacy of their families and bars. Lyon paints an authentic, personal and uncompromising portrait of these men and women on the bangs of society. His committed style and raw, humanistic realism are reminiscent of the New Journalism literary movement, popularized in the 1960s by Joan Didion, Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe. Wolfe defines this movement as artistic investigation ("Investigation is an art, let's just be kind of artists."). With The Bikeriders, the photographer has immersed himself in the subject, amplifying the strength of the work and the interest it arouses in us.