{"product_id":"matthew-porter-matthew-porter-9781683952077","title":"Matthew Porter: The Heights (Signed Edition): Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"I was inspired by the way a car can steal the show. Think of iconic car chases in films--it's often about spectacle, and has little to do with advancing a narrative. And that's the way I think of these cars, as dead-end technologies, but also as high-performance machines which, for their audience, sought to reflect the spirit and attitudes of their time.\" --Matthew Porter\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1683952073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781683952077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aperture Direct\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.10h x 11.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Matthew Porter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45265125572863,"sku":"9781683952077","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_562d63c2-a9a9-4ae8-8cca-bed80415ea6c.jpg?v=1713420225","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/matthew-porter-matthew-porter-9781683952077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}