| Pascal Cavin: Inventaire: Un Paysage Automobile Contributor(s): Cavin, Pascal (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 3869309644 ISBN-13: 9783869309644 Publisher: Steidl OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of January 21, 2025 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Photography | Individual Photographers - Artists' Books |
| Dewey: 779.092 |
| Physical Information: 98 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard released his celebrated film Weekend. Its most famous scene, in which the two protagonists stubbornly overtake an extensive traffic jam in a Facel Vega Facellia cabriolet, is one of the longest tracking shots in the history of cinema: the camera slowly passes by the line of about 40 motionless cars whose occupants employ the most varied techniques to kill time. In what for Godard is a metaphor for life--the camera's journey ends in a pool of blood, the victims and the crippled cars have meanwhile been cleared from the street--photographer Pascal Cavin sees an impressive catalogue of cars. By isolating and labeling the individual vehicles in 45 stills, he creates a thorough historical inventory of the automobile types populating the streets in the late 1960s. |