Hells Angels Motorcycle Club [Paperback]

Andrew Shaylor (Photographer), Sonny Barger (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2007

Photographer Andrew Shaylor was given unique access, over several years, to the secret world of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. He set out to assemble a truthful depiction of this much misunderstood group, and the result is a remarkable collection of photographs. Now available in paperback for the first time, Shaylor's powerfully honest portraits show the diversity of the club's members, while images of important HAMC events give fascinating insights into a club that has remained closed to outsiders...until now. Over 300 stunning photographs - including new images appearing for the first time in this edition - reveal the rich diversity of the HAMC. It features HAMC events, members' motorcycles, clubhouses, over 100 incisive portraits and a multitude of details that uniquely define HAMC culture. It contains a specially commissioned foreword by Sonny Barger, internationally well-known and respected member of the HAMC.

Editorial Reviews

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The powerful images in this book give an in-depth insight into a worldwide association. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Andrew Shaylor is a professional photographer whose work has appeared in numerous magazines, including Vogue, Esquire, Blueprint and Tatler. Sonny Barger, an American legend, was the co-founder, and for many years president, of the Oakland, California, chapter of the HAMC. He now lives near Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a member of the Cave Creek chapter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Merrell Holberton; Revised edition (September 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1858944074
• ISBN-13: 978-1858944074
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #27 in Books > Professional & Technical > Automotive > Motorcycles > History
  • #27 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Miscellaneous > Motorcycle Racing

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25 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars not enough bang in a book about a subject that is pure fire, July 29, 2005

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T. Murray "kidmonk" (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (Hardcover)

although this book features great and at times candid photography it is handicapped by attempting to deal with a worldwide phenomenon (the hells angels mc) through the eyes of only its UK members...the angels though now global are a pure american institution...they could not have been founded anywhere else in the world with the same results...so it is unfortunant that such a wonderful idea as using unbiased photography to bring the club to life was used in such a limited capacity...the hamc deserves a massive work in this vein...any attempt to bring the angels to the general public without including at least a glimpse of its american roots stands only to leave a sense of unfinshed business in its wake...

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars My review of Mr. Shaylor photo book, July 26, 2007

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G. Nance (Deer Park, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (Hardcover)

I agree whole heartedly with the one gentleman who was dissapointed that the picture book had no representation of the U.S. Hells Angels - particularly the famous, celebrated and of course notorious California Hells Angels where it all began. I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book and couldn't wait to open it up and go through the pics. As I flipped (and flipped and flipped) my dissapointment mounted as I became aware there would be no pics, stories etc. of all the famous/notorious Angels I had read about in other outlaw mc books. In that regard this book was a huge dissapointment to me. Who cares about European/foreign Hells Angels? I want the real thing! The pictures are good and impressive I will say but I felt no bond to European i.e. "foreign" Angels - they're just different over there. For example, in some of the photos you see these "foreign" Angels wearing huge bulbous helmets and, of all things, TENNIS SHOES while riding their bikes! Please! I was dissapointed in the book to say the least. Thank you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, November 11, 2007

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Patti "Book Lady" (RATHDRUM, ID, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (Paperback)

I was disappointed in this book, for the price I was expecting much more. The photos are well done, I only hope that a similar book will follow to cover the United States,that would be truly of interest.