We walked around the small main street in Park City and stumbled upon the Kimball Art Center. They had a really amazing photo exhibit of the The Chicago Outlaws bike club from the 1960s shot by Danny Lyon.
From the website:
In 1963, armed with a Nikon, a Rolleiflex and a seven-pound tape recorder, Danny Lyon chronicled the notorious motorcycle gang, The Chicago Outlaws, in a body of work that seared motorcycle counterculture in the American psyche and became the inspiration for the film, Easy Rider. Bikeriders highlights the tension between art and ideology in photography. A self-taught photographer and giant of post-war documentary filmmaking, Lyon wanted to “…change history and preserve humanity, but in the process I changed myself…”
Lyon had first taken up motorcycling as an undergraduate, tearing laps around the University of Chicago ‘s circle drive with fellow enthusiasts. “This wasn’t the Hell’s Angels,” he remembers, “It was the philosophy department.” Soon he was attending local races, increasingly with his camera. When he joined the Chicago Outlaws to more fully experience the life, Lyon ‘s peers, Hunter S. Thompson among them, were concerned that he had fallen off the edge. But Lyon was already pre-visualizing his first book – a new kind of photo-story, very different from what appeared in the pages of Life Magazine.
All the photos were from the book he published. I couldn’t find many of them online, but you should definitely check out the book:
Man looks like you’re having a blast…