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Documenting The Era
Langdon Clay: Cars: New York City, 1974–1976

Cars – New York City, 1974- 1976” is a photo book published by American photographer Langdon Clay that includes his images of the cars he encountered in New York City and nearby Hoboken, New Jersey between 1974 and 1976. These photographs were taken with Clay’s Leica camera and documented some of the iconic cars parked on the New York streets, such as the Plymouth Duster, the Mercedes Sedan, the Chevrolet Nova, the Chrysler New Yorker and the Volkswagen Beetle Convertible.

“They were all there, motionless, quietly parked. They were staring at me, standing still at the foot of the buildings. Side by side, as if they could create a kind of geographical and imaginary map of this city that I have loved so much.” says Langdon Clay.

After being exhibited in 1978 at the occasion of the Rencontres d’Arles and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, these photographs had then long slept in the artist’s archives. With the exhibition “Cars by Langdon Clay” recently held at the Polka Gallery in Paris, these photographs were presented to celebrate the relationship between photography and automobiles.

”LANGDON CLAY – CARS” Exhibition at Polka Gallery