Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors Car photography often evokes the same recycled tropes. But our relationship with cars is so much more meaningful than these images might suggest. Predictably slick, hi-spec images…
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Smoke and Mirrors
Car photography often evokes the same recycled tropes. But our relationship with cars is so much more meaningful than these images might suggest. Predictably slick, hi-spec images on the front pages of glossy magazines, or huge blow-ups on giant billboards which have one designed aim: to sell a lifestyle.
With cars came road trips, and with road trips came some of the most important photographic documentaries of our time. Like the camera, the car has changed the way we explore the world. A car is a vehicle not just for transport but for our hopes, desires and dreams.
In Smoke and Mirrors, a selection of world-renowned and up-and-coming photographers come together to pay tribute to the car. From Nick Turpin's images of 'donut' skid marks, Todd Hido's painterly landscapes taken through wet windscreens and William Green's shots of sleeping Tokyo taxi drivers, these photographs