Smoke and Mirrors: Cars, Photography and Dreams of the Open Road

by Hoxton Mini Press and Adam Hay-Nicholls

Book Overview

Car photography often evokes the same recycled tropes. Predictably slick, hi-spec images on the front pages of glossy magazines, or huge blow-ups on giant billboards which have one designed aim: to sell a lifestyle. But our relationship with cars is so much more meaningful than these images might suggest. Like the camera, the car has changed the way we explore the world. With cars came road trips, and with road trips came some of the most important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846149444
• ISBN13: 9781846149443
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.8"