Pascal Cavin: Inventaire: Un Paysage Automobile (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783869309644)

In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard released his celebrated film Weekend. Its most famous scene, in which the two protagonists stubbornly overtake an extensive traffic jam in a Facel Vega Facellia cabriolet, is one of the longest tracking shots in the history of cinema: the camera slowly passes by the line of about 40 motionless cars whose occupants employ the most varied techniques to kill time. In what for Godard is a metaphor for life--the camera's journey ends in a pool of blood, the victims and the crippled cars have meanwhile been cleared from the street--photographer Pascal Cavin sees an impressive catalogue of cars. By isolating and labeling the individual vehicles in 45 stills, he creates a thorough historical inventory of the automobile types populating the streets in the late 1960s.

Author: Pascal Cavin
ISBN-10: 3869309644
ISBN-13: 9783869309644
Publisher: Steidl
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2025
Pages: 98
Format: Hardcover