{"product_id":"9781597114578","title":"The Heights","description":"Author: Matthew Porter\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781597114578\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Aperture\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 22 Jul 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 56\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833138335902,"sku":"ADS-9781597114578","price":79.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781597114578.jpg?v=1778649972","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781597114578","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}