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The Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars (Paperback)
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The Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars (Paperback)
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"I was inspired by the way a car can steal the show. Think of
iconic car chases in films-it's often about spectacle, and has
little to do with advancing a narrative. And that's the way I think
of these cars, as dead-end technologies, but also as
high-performance machines which, for their audience, sought to
reflect the spirit and attitudes of their time." -Matthew Porter
Matthew Porter presents a portfolio of twenty-five images of
old-school cars, captured in midair as they careen over city
streets and highway intersections. Each photograph is a
freeze-frame-a hypothetical film still from a pulp-fiction chase
scene. The series seems, on one hand, to distill the essence of
muscle-car Americana, a pop-cultural semaphore for the
high-testosterone male persona. And yet, on the other, the
subject-the "all-American" muscle car as antihero-is caught in an
eternal state of suspended animation, while the various elements of
the landscape in the background organize themselves around the
edges of the frame. The resulting pictures are a hybrid of
hyperreality and studied, topographic description, part bittersweet
nostalgia and part ironic reinvention of a classic American trope.
Rachel Kushner contributes an original piece of writing that riffs
on the aesthetic and aspirational nature of the American car.
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