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"The Bikeriders" with Danny Lyon, Reception, Exhibit and Film Series
Event Happens: Feb 27, 2010 - May 07, 2010

6 p.m. Reception. 11 - 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and;Friday, 11-7 p.m. Wednesday, and 1 - 5 p.m. Weekends. Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Mori Hosseini Center, Building 1200, 1200 International Speedway Blvd, Daytona Beach. In 1968, just before Easy Rider roared its way into the American imagination, Danny Lyon finished The Bikeriders. This seminal photographic study marked a new direction for photo-journalism and documentary photography, and pioneered the style that has come to be known as the "New Journalism". It was one of the defining photography projects of the 1960's. The Bikeriders, With its mix of grit, realism and romanticism, and its ground-breaking use of the biker's own stories and accounts, was a landmark collection that documented the abandon and risk of motorcycle gangs, and powerfully propelled motorcycle counterculture into the mainstream American consciousness. The images and interviews in The Bikeriders are as raw, alive, and dramatic today as they were nearly four decades ago. It has influenced every subsequent generations of photographers and is a masterful illustration of a unique American sub-culture. www.smponline.org.