CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/14/2015

Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders

"Ronnie and Cheri, La Porte, Indiana" is reproduced from Aperture's facsimile reprint of Danny Lyon's 1968 classic, The Bikeriders, one of the seminal books in the National Gallery's current Photobooks After Frank. Lyon writes, "If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds represented it is what I have come to believe is the spirit of the bikeriders: the spirit of the hand that twists open the throttle on the crackling engines of the big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic, or, on occasion, into oblivion."