{"product_id":"the-heights-matthew-porters-photographs-of-flying-cars-9781597114578","title":"The Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI 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.\u003c\/em\u003e – Matthew Porter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Heights: Matthew Porter's Photographs of Flying Cars\u003c\/em\u003e presents a portfolio of twenty-five images of old-school cars, captured in midair as they careen over city streets and highway intersections. Each photograph is a freeze-frame—a hypothetical film still from a pulp-fiction chase scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe series seems, on one hand, to distill the essence of muscle-car Americana, a pop-cultural semaphore for the high-testosterone male persona. And yet, on the other, the subject—the \"all-American\" muscle car as antihero—is caught in an eternal state of suspended animation, while the various elements of the landscape in the background organise themselves around the edges of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting pictures are a hybrid of hyperreality and studied, topographic description, part bittersweet nostalgia and part ironic reinvention of a classic American trope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428268425452,"sku":"9781597114578","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781597114578.jpg?v=1774497288","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-heights-matthew-porters-photographs-of-flying-cars-9781597114578","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}