Autophoto: Cars & Photography, 1900 to Now - by Xavier Barral & Philippe Séclier (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The camera's romance with the car: a photo history</strong></p><p><em>Autophoto</em> explores photography's longstanding and generative relationship to the automobile. Since its invention, the automobile has reshaped our landscape, extended our geographic horizons and radically altered our conception of space and time, influencing the practice of photographers worldwide. <p/>The book shows how the car provided photographers with new subject matter and a new way of exploring the world. It brings together 500 works made by 100 historical and contemporary artists from around the world, including Robert Adams, Brassaï, Edward Burtynsky, Langdon Clay, John Divola, Robert Doisneau, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Anthony Hernandez, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Joel Meyerowitz, Daido Moriyama, Catherine Opie, Martin Parr, Rosângela Rennó, Ed Ruscha, Hans-Christian Schink, Malick Sidibé, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel. <p/>Capturing formal qualities such as the geometric design of roadways or reflections in a rear view mirror, these photographers invite us to look at the world of the automobile in a new way. <em>Autophoto</em> also includes other projects, such as a series of car models that cast a fresh eye on the history of automobile design, created specifically for the Fondation Cartier show by French artist Alain Bublex, plus a comparative history of automobile design and photography, essays by scholars and quotes by participating artists.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[<i>Autophoto</i>] makes it easy to understand why photographers' romance with the car may be as strong as ever.--Eric Nagourney "The New York Times: Lens Blog"<br><br>By the end of the 19th century, the camera and the car had helped pave the way for a new, more modern perspective - images by freezing time, from multiple perspectives, and automobiles by speeding things up--Susanna D'Aliesio "British Journal of Photography"<br><br>Capturing the geometric design of roadways, the reflections in a rear-view mirror or our special relationship with this object of desire, these photographers invite us to look at the world of the automobile in a new way.--David Hurren "DriveTribe"<br><br>Cars and cameras grew up together as siblings.... A comfortable comparison can be made with having a photo in focus and having a car in the correct gear.... A lot of that has to do with taking the machine in your hands seriously--much like taking the car that you're sitting in seriously.--Florence Walker "Petrolicious"<br><br>Fasten your seatbelts...--De Bellaigue "Ad Magazine"<br><br>The stunning car photographs that capture the 20th century.... not only tells the shifting story of society's attitudes towards motorcars, but also provides an overview of important developments within the century's photography itself.--Alastair Sooke "Financial Times"<br><br>The Cartier, 'Autophoto' is long overdue. Ever since the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain hosted the incredible Hommage à Ferrari 30 years ago, we've been waiting for another one of its automotive photo exhibitions. But it's finally here and it looks incredible.-- "GQ"<br><br>This is the catalogue from a nearly impossibly ambitious exhibition of international photography about people and cars. Big and heavy like a school textbook, the catalogue ends up hitting most of the marks, and is a massive, thoughtful, and even, somehow, modest encyclopedia of the genre.-- "Center for Land Use Interpretation"<br><br>This new presentation revisits photography's relationship to the automobile; how the car provided photographers with a new subject, a new point of view and new way of exploring the world... how the automobile has reshaped our landscape, extended our geographic horizons and altered our, and notably artists', concept of space and time.-- "Aesthetica Magazine"<br><br>What may be the most ambitious exhibit of car-focused photography ever ... flat-out beautiful images.--Bill Shapiro "Popular Mechanics"<br><br>Works range from an Eve Arnold's iconic 1961 images of Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits... to the work of photographers who have made the subject matter their own, like William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, and Robert Frank. [T]he diversity of images included is a testament to the ingenuity of photography and the various permutations that it can achieve.... many subtle threads that can be picked up on, giving plenty to satisfy the curious and knowledgeable.... One of these threads is changing the collective cultural memory of the car.--Sarah Hyde "Artnet"<br>
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