The 'Bikeriders' Diaries

Next to Robert Frank’s The Americans, there may be no book of midcentury American photography more influential than The Bikeriders, Danny Lyon’s landmark work from 1968. It’s not just the unforgettable photographs, which focus on the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club; it’s also the text that accompanies them—intimate, revealing interviews with the riders and their women that Lyon, a twentysomething armed with nothing but a Rolleiflex, a Nikon, and a seven-pound reel-to-reel tape recorder, captured during the three years he spent among the Outlaws.