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As the summer reaches the height of the season, we all tend to slow down and take time off — the city streets empty and we strike out in search of cool water or more temperate weather. We felt that now is the perfect time to take a new look at an old icon of both summer and the 20th century — the automobile. Artist Langdon Clay’s 48 year-old project Cars, New York City 1974-1976 offers up a rich kaleidoscopic vision of a lost New York, the photographer’s unstaged images of vintage cars back-lit by forgotten neon signage evoking a nostalgia for summers past.
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Available to purchase
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"Cars were an indispensable aspect of the twentieth-century American culture for both their utility and aesthetics. From 1974-1976, Langdon Clay photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey at night. Shot in Kodachrome with a Leica and deftly lit with then-new sodium vapor lights, the pictures feature a distinct array of makes and models set against the gritty details of their surrounding urban and architectural environments and occasionally the ghostly presence of people."— Steidl
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