Red Ragtop car, Mercedes Coupe, West Village, 1974
Photograph
1974 (made)
1974 (made)
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Clay was among the first photographers in the mid-1970s to embrace colour photography as an artistic medium. Fascinated by the different colours and light sources in the urban night, he shot a series of photographs documenting parked cars on the streets of New York and New Jersey. He was drawn to the gleaming metal and glass of cars, iridescent in the artificial lighting of the nocturnal city, as well as the way that they interacted with the surrounding architecture.
Object details
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| Title | Red Ragtop car, Mercedes Coupe, West Village, 1974 (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | C-type print |
| Brief description | Photograph by Langdon Clay, 'Red Ragtop car, Mercedes Coupe, West Village', from the series 'Cars', 1974, c-type print |
| Physical description | Photograph of a red topped car parked beside a sidewalk. There are rubbish bins on the sidewalk. |
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| Summary | Clay was among the first photographers in the mid-1970s to embrace colour photography as an artistic medium. Fascinated by the different colours and light sources in the urban night, he shot a series of photographs documenting parked cars on the streets of New York and New Jersey. He was drawn to the gleaming metal and glass of cars, iridescent in the artificial lighting of the nocturnal city, as well as the way that they interacted with the surrounding architecture. |
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| Accession number | PH.350-1978 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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