Matthew Porter: South City, 2018

“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

Aperture is pleased to offer a special limited-edition photograph by Matthew Porter in celebration of his publication, Matthew Porter: The Heights (Aperture, 2019).

South City, 2018 is a work from his widely popular Flying Cars series. Here we see the classic 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle captured midair over city streets. Each photograph in the series is a freeze-frame—a hypothetical film still from a pulp fiction scene. A hybrid of hyperreality and studied topographic description, part bittersweet nostalgia, and part ironic reinvention of a classic American trope.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.