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

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.

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