The Heights Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars |
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| Photographer:
| Porter, Matthew |
| Text by:
| Kushner, Rachel |
| ISBN: | 978-1-59711-457-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2019 |
| Publisher: | Aperture Foundation, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Aperture |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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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 photographs, known popularly as the "flying car" series, are a hybrid of hyperreality and studied, topographic description, part bittersweet nostalgia and part ironic reinvention of a classic American trope.
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 photographs, known popularly as the "flying car" series, are a hybrid of hyperreality and studied, topographic description, part bittersweet nostalgia and part ironic reinvention of a classic American trope.