BAND OF BIKERS 1962/1972

BAND OF BIKERS 1962/1972
Scott Zieher

Scott Zieher discovered a pile of old photographs in a Manhtten basement. The photographs offerer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation at its carefree zenith.
A pithy narrative can be drawn from these two groups of photographs taken a decade apart. The sequence from 1962 reveals a hushed, simmering milieu romantically enhanced by antiquated photographic techniques. By 1972 the photographs are more confident and considered, as are their subjects. Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy-handed eroticism, photographer and photographed instead brim with a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride.

80 pages, 91 colour photos, hardback