Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders": Pictures and Audio from the 1960s at Milwaukee Art Museum

Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders": Pictures and Audio from the 1960s
Milwaukee Art Museum
Through September 14, 2003

Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders": Pictures and Audio from the 1960s takes a new look at photojournalist Danny Lyon's seminal series The Bikeriders, which documented motorcycle club culture in the Midwest. Two special aspects of this exhibition are the inclusion of previously unreleased images from the original vintage negatives, and audio recordings of interviews Lyon conducted with racers and members of the Chicago and Milwaukee motorcycle club he knew when he was shooting the series. 

By including both audio and visual, Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders" attempts to communicate the authentic and intimate relationship of the artist to his subject, and give visitors both a realistic and romantic window into the biker world of the 1960s. 

Danny Lyon (born 1942) is one of the most significant documentary photographers and filmmakers of the late twentieth century. His career began in the early 1960s when he photographed for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in their campaign for Civil Rights in the South. Other major projects include a series on Midwest motorcycle club members, inmates in Texas penitentiaries, demolition derby drivers, the destruction of Lower Manhattan through urban renewal, revolutions in Haiti and life in inner city Brooklyn. The exhibition is guest curated at MAM by Michael Davidson and Tom Kenney.

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