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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Matthew Porter – The Heights
| Publisher | Aperture |
| Year | 2019 |
| Cover | Softcover with dust jacket |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-1-59711-457-8 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Weight | 503 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Rachel Kushner |
| Article ID | art-64395 |
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.
