While scanning endless strips of 35mm negatives for the Impala Hell Project series, I keep running across shots of random cars I thought were interesting at the time. This sort of photography led, 15 years later, to my Down On The Street series, and so I thought I’d share this set of grainy Tri-X photographs of a Malaise Buick in California’s Central Valley, captured on a super-cheapo Ansco Pix Panorama camera. (Read More…)
Posted in Down On The Street
Tagged as 1970s, 1973, 1973 Buick Electra, 1993, Buick, buick electra, California, Down On The Street Bonus Edition, Malaise, Malaise Era, Stockton
Tagged as 1970s, 1973, 1973 Buick Electra, 1993, Buick, buick electra, California, Down On The Street Bonus Edition, Malaise, Malaise Era, Stockton
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