Road Pirates: Photographs

From Publishers Weekly This curious volume chronicles America's motorcycle subculture by combining lackluster pseudo-Avedon portraits by Hauser ( Halloween in Bucktown ) with outrageous statements by the bikers themselves on the virtues of a "Harley" way of life. Subjects include the exhilaration provided by the freedom of the road, the empowerment garnered by traveling in groups and the ego sustenance supplied by biker women, or "bitches" as they are affectionately known. After we are told by Robb that "When you're a biker you're a member of a large family," we learn numerous details about the lives of various bikers. Most provocatively, there are tips for biker women under the heading, "On Being a Good Bitch." The bikers also state that they reject the negative labels--like "trash" and "tramp"--that have been thrown at them since the sixties. One biker has this to say: ital in text/pk "You don't have to be black to be a nigger . . . . People see the black leather and T-shirt and they hassle me. They don't even know what I do or what I have." Overall, the book's narrow presentation fails to shed any new light on this very distinctive social group. Robb is a freelance writer and photographer. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal

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