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The Heights

The Heights

Matthew Porter’s Photographs of Flying Cars

by Matthew Porter
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/04/2019

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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 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.

ISBN:
9781597114578
9781597114578
Category:
Individual photographers
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-04-2019
Publisher:
Aperture
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
56
Dimensions (mm):
305x273mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Matthew Porter

Matthew Porter (born in State College, Pennsylvania, 1975) is a graduate of Bard College and of the ICP-Bard MFA Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, New York. His work was included in Photography Is Magic (Aperture, 2015), and his first book, Archipelago, was published in 2015. Porter’s work is represented by M+B, Los Angeles, and Invisible-Exports, New York. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

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