Clark Winter: Here to There

Clark Winter: Here to There showcases Clark Winter's perceptive photographs of cars across the decades—and around the world—that revel in nostalgia while revealing the subtleties of our relationship with automobiles, drivers, and the things we see along the way.

Since their invention, cars have been one of the driving forces behind America's constantly changing culture. Not only have they helped shape the country's sprawling cities and suburban society, but they've inspired films (from American Graffiti to The Fast and the Furious) and songs (from the Beach Boys' zippy Fun, Fun, Fun to Bruce Springsteen's anthemic Thunder Road) and an endless parade of road-trip books.

Over the course of half a century, Clark Winter captured images of the car as a symbol of Americana. More intriguingly, he also found a global spirit in this form of transportation in countries such as Spain, Italy, and China.

Winter's photographs, made in both colour and black-and-white, are not simply focused on the vehicles but rather on the way people physically relate to cars, turning each image into a stage upon which a drama quietly (and sometimes comically) unfolds between owner, passenger, and passerby. Because these dramas are universal—eating ice cream in the backseat, waiting for a pump at the petrol station, stuck in traffic, busted for speeding—Winter's wide-eyed, often lighthearted pictures invite us to recall and relive our own days of adventure, romance, and speed.