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...prior to the 1960s--a marginal sort of image, perpetrated and supported by movies like the Marlon Brando film, 'The Wild One,'...about an alienated kid who confronted his hostility by being part of this motorcycle gang that goes into a small town and causes utter chaos," according to Booth. The Hell's Angels, a "notorious, infamous gang of outlaws who ride primarily Harley [motorcycles]," also contributed to this negative image of bikers...
...counter-culture image [before the 1960s] has now become theater to contemporary Harley-Davidson riders. I think that's part of what makes them so willing to be photographed," Booth says...
Most present-day Harley riders feel an allegiance to this image, Booth says. "Only a Harley rider is part of that community," not those who ride Japanese-made bikes...
...Booth calls the bikers who take up motorcycling in their middle-aged years the "mid-life crisis" cyclists, who make up another section of his bike photography. They are "people who've never ridden before and are now in their 40s and 50s with [the] disposable time and income to take up motorcycling," he says. "They are the type of people who might buy a motorhome, but now they buy a motorcycle...
...another group of pictures in Booth's collection feature child dirtbike racers. Children often as young as eight years old are pictured holding trophies with their proud parents in the background...