The Bikeriders

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He is the founding member of the publishing group Bleak Beauty. He was greatly encouraged in his photography by curator of the Art Institute of Chicago [6] Hugh Edwards, who gave Lyon two solo exhibits as a young man. FROM EARLY ON, Lyon had not only harnessed but excelled at photographic composition, and the imprecise skill of capturing a compelling picture. This feat is all the more impressive since Lyon was really self-taught in photography, without models or mentors. At the University of Chicago (where he was a classmate of Bernie Sanders’s), Lyon majored in history and studied documentary photographs of the Civil War; he also admired the work of James Agee and Walker Evans, especially their first-person documentary account of living among Southern tenant farmers, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). In 1962, even before he had graduated, Lyon traveled to Albany, Georgia, to photograph civil rights demonstrations. At age twenty-one, he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); worked the front lines with activists Julian Bond, John Lewis, and Howard Zinn; and was jailed alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Lyon’s extraordinary civil rights images show the courage and integrity that became the hallmarks of his early work, as he waded into tense encounters with burly Southern cops and angry Mississippi mobs. 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] After completing The Bikeriders, Lyon was made an associate of the prestigious Magnum Photos cooperative, but in 1975, when other members noticed that he never attended any of the meetings, the group dropped him, though his work has remained in the Magnum archive ever since. He continued to photograph important and personal stories with integrity, from the demolition of downtown Manhattan to the brutal prison system in Texas. But Benny is deeply in love with Kathy, played by Jodie Comer with tough pugnacity and an outrageous northwestern accent with which you could slice a chrome tailpipe in two. She is effectively the narrator, speaking to Danny Lyon himself, played by Mike Faust. Like Lorraine Bracco’s Karen in Scorsese’s Goodfellas, Kathy is a respectable working-class woman who never intended to get drawn into this world, but found Benny very attractive just as he was beguiled by her cool, sceptical confidence. It is Kathy who can see the ritual absurdity of the Vandals’ codes of masculinity – how, having affected to despise rules, they set up a club with a huge amount of rules, followed with pedantic solemnity like a cross between the army and the Rotary club. She can see how her Benny is going to die one day in the service of this crazy group, and so a duel for possession begins between her and Johnny.

Glynn, Jennifer (December 8, 2022). "Austin Butler's 'The Bikeriders' Wraps Filming". Collider . Retrieved February 6, 2023. 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 RoleA poignant personal account of the remarkable 50 year career of one of America's most original photographers."— Juxtapoz All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, [4] meaning that the photographer has become immersed, and is a participant, of the documented subject. a b "Missouri Honor Medal Winners: Individuals". Missouri School of Journalism . Retrieved 16 November 2015. It was announced in August 2022 that Nichols would also direct the film, with Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, and Tom Hardy being cast. [3] Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook, and Damon Herriman were added to the cast later in the month. [7] That September, Toby Wallace, Emory Cohen, Beau Knapp, Karl Glusman, and Happy Anderson joined the ensemble cast. [8] Norman Reedus and Mike Faist were added to the cast the following month. [9] [10]

a b c Seeger, Bob (1989). Everybody Says Freedom. New York u.a: Norton. pp.87–100. ISBN 0393306046. Milici, Lauren (November 9, 2022). "Tom Hardy is coming for David Attenborough's job and narrating a new documentary series". GamesRadar+ . Retrieved February 6, 2023.There’s also small-but-potent turns from the Boyd Holbrook, The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and Nichols regular Michael Shannon as Vandals bikers. But it’s Austin Butler that remains the standout. Proving that his Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic was not a flash in the pan, he oozes charisma in a smouldering turn. So much so that when he disappears out of the story following a brutal fight in which he’s badly wounded, the film struggles for a while to regain its momentum.

A far cry from the vacuous coffee table art books with which it shares its considerable scale. This tome requires work. But it is the kind of work that any lover of the medium will welcome with great enthusiasm, relishing every moment spent with the work of a great artist."— photo eye a b Seymour, Tom (2 October 2016). "Major Danny Lyon retrospective comes to London". British Journal of Photography. Apptitude Media . Retrieved 12 January 2017. Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO [7] [21] 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] Anthony D'Alessandro (November 21, 2023). "New Regency's 'The Bikeriders' Looking For A New Home". Deadline.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 "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.