Automobile Culture Metamorphosis

As we try to re-imagine transportation from both personal and public perspectives, the worldwide automobile industry is undergoing a painful metamorphosis. Fine artist and photographer Pierrick Gaumé visually captures this identity crisis in his series of Automorphoses photographs in College Hill Review.

The editor writes: "Each of these images documents a moment in time that is lost, when a particular car distorted a particular street or building. Like the metal, the images themselves reflect—not only the American street but also the unseen eye that found them and captured them for us."

I happened to be chatting on the phone with the artist when he snapped #7, Mission TL.

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