Clark Winter: Here to There - by Bill Shapiro (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Winter's perceptive photographs of cars across the decades--and around the world--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 have 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 color 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. And because these dramas are universal--eating ice cream in the back seat, waiting for a pump at the gas 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.
Clark Winter is a trustee of several cultural institutions, including the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation in New York. His previous photobooks include Birds and Free Air.

Review Quotes

[Clark Winter's] images reward the curious viewer--one willing to be catalyzed by Mr. Winter's visual storytelling. A thousand stories could be invented, for example, to explain the sight of a car pulled over to the side of the road, while a police officer interviews a nun.--Angelina Torre "The Wall Street Journal"

Winter understood that there was something to a convertible crammed with Shriners, an old couple car picnicking, and a surreal fork in the road somewhere in the cornfields of Ohio--something that gives this new collection of photos, 'Here to There, ' published by the Italian art-book publisher Damiani Books, an internal combustion and immortal tread all its own.--Nathan King "Air Mail"

Through Clark Winter's photobook, 'Here to There: Photographs from the Road Ahead, ' we see cars not only as extensions of world culture, but driving forces of nostalgia and drama throughout each of our lives.--Autumn Johnstone "Musee Magazine"