Danny Lyon
Racer, Schererville, Indiana

Racer, Schererville, Indiana

© Danny Lyon/Magnum Photos

Racer, Schererville, Indiana
Racer, Schererville, Indiana
ArtistAmerican, born 1942
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Racer, Schererville, Indiana
Date1965
Place depictedSchererville, Indiana, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/8 × 12 in. (20.6 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 13 15/16 in. (23 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number76.285
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThis
photograph is from one of Danny Lyon’s best-known works: The Bikeriders, which was immensely popular and influential in the
1960s and 1970s. Working in the style called “New Journalism”—that is, by
immersing himself and becoming a participant in a given subject—Lyon
photographed motorcyclists in the Midwest from 1963 to 1967. He became a member
of the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club, traveled with them, and shared their
lifestyle. This series was described by Lyon as “an attempt to record and
glorify the life of the American bikerider.”

Provenance[The Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top across in pencil "DO NOT MOUNT[underlined twice]"
lower left "Indiana 1965"
verso bottom right in pencil "Danny Lyon 1966"

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