Portraits of American Bikers by Beverly V. Roberts

ROBERTS, Beverly V. (editor). Portraits of American Bikers: Life in the 1960s (The Flash Collection). Birmingham, MI, Flash Productions, LLC, 2008.

First edition, signed and dated by the author, of this photo book: an iconic portrayal of biker culture in late-sixties America.

Using a Speed Graphics press camera, biker Jim ‘Flash’ Miteff took several hundred photographs of the Outlaws 1%er Motorcycle Club, Detroit Chapter, during his membership from 1965 to 1969. These candid and unscripted images remained in storage for forty years until Miteff’s daughter, Beverly V. Roberts, selected over seventy photographs to create this book.

Oblong quarto, pp. 158, with seventy-five B/W illustrations; publisher’s pictorial wrappers; overall very good (edges a little rubbed, some light creasing to covers).