Publisher/Aperture

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"The Bikeriders" is a photobook by Danny Ryan, a photographer born in Brooklyn, New York. Ryan studied history in college and in the 1960s photographed the Civil Rights Movement, publishing his own photobook "The Movement." Since then, he has published works such as "Conversations with the Dead," which documented the lives of prisoners in Texas prisons, and has created many works that focus on the anti-social side. His illustrations, which depict outsiders from an intimate perspective, are also wonderful, and his expressive, poetic writing is superb, earning him a reputation for dense documentary works that combine visuals and text. This book is Ryan's first solo photobook, published in 1968, and is a social documentary depicting the daily lives of Chicago bike riders. Ryan himself became a biker, capturing the strong spirit of the riders and the deep love and friendship that resides within them. An enduring masterpiece of documentary work by Danny Ryan, who has continued to find the "beauty" of humanity and the heart in "bad" and "evil."