1968. rare color portraits of the 24-year-old rocker/poet Jim Morrison, plus a few previously unpublished shots of the Doors playing New York’s famed Fillmore East.
(Photos: Yale Joel—TIME & LIFE Pictures/Getty Images)
Danny Lyon published his series The Bikeriders in 1968. The book contains photographs and personal interviews collected by Lyon during his time spent with the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club from 1963 to 1967.
In the introduction to the book Lyon writes, “The material in this book was collected between 1963 and 1967 in an attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider. It is a personal record, dealing mostly with bikeriders whom I know and care for. If anything has guided this work beyond the facts of the worlds presented 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 big bikes and rides them on racetracks or through traffic or, on occasion, into oblivion.”
Lyon’s work was influential in terms of his approach to photojournalism while also focusing attention to the growing interest in American bike culture.
The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo) is a 1963 Italian film by director Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’snovel of the same name.
Awards
- 1963 Cannes Film Festival
- Winner: Palme d’Or - Luchino Visconti[1]
- Nastro d’Argento
- Winner: Silver Ribbon - Luchino Visconti
- Winner: Best Cinematography, Color (Migliore Fotografia a Colori) - Giuseppe Rotunno
- Winner: Best Costume Design (Migliori Costumi) - Piero Tosi
- Winner: Best Production Design (Migliore Scenografia) - Mario Garbuglia
- Academy Awards
- Nominated: Best Costume Design, Color - Piero Tosi
