Langdon Clay: Cars: New York City, 1974-1976

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Langdon Clay

Cars: New York City, 1974-1976

Langdon Clay

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Steidl Verlag
01 February 2017

Individual photographers; Photographs: collections; Motor cars: general interest

"From 1974 to 1976, Langdon Clay (born 1949) photographed the cars he encountered while wandering the streets of New York 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. ""I experienced a conversion of sorts in making a switch from the 'decisive moment' of black and white to the marvel of color, a world I was waking up to every day,"" Clay writes of this work. ""At the time it seemed like an obvious and natural transition. What was less obvious was how to reflect my world of New York City in color ... I discovered that night was its own color and I fell for it.""

Langdon Clay was born in New York City in 1949. He grew up in New Jersey and Vermont and attended school in New Hampshire and Boston. Clay moved to New York in 1971 and spent the next sixteen years photographing there, around the country and in Europe for various magazines and books. In 1987 he moved to Mississippi where he has since lived with his wife, photographer Maude Schuyler Clay, and their three children."

By: Langdon Clay
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 288mm, Width: 364mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 1.880kg
ISBN: 9783958291713
ISBN 10: 3958291716
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 01 February 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Langdon Clay: Cars: New York City, 1974-1976

...lush and evocative...--Albert Mobilio Bookforum Clay's book is called Cars but cars are only part of the story; he's created a time capsule of New York in the '70s, and a haunting reminder of just how big the night can be.--Bill Shapiro L'Oeil de la Photographie He shot [the cars]...in such a careful, observant way that 18-foot-long Chevy Impalas and tri-tone Buick Electras fit seamlessly into their surroundings.--Bill Shapiro L'Oeil de la Photographie Langdon Clay's photographs of the New York City streets have the luminous loneliness of an Edward Hopper painting.--Allison Meier Hyperallergic One car, one background--scenes of workaday machines, neglected and decrepit, resting in a sleeping metropolis. The best of these images are collected in a new book, Cars--New York City, 1974-1976, published by Steidl.--Road and Track