archive • crashed cars of kuwait 2005

a flickr user named psycho milt spent a few years taking pictures of crashed cars he came across in kuwait, then wrote a little story about each one. it's a grisly, bizzare collection. see more here.

[all from crashed cars of kuwait 2005 by psycho milt.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph.

mandi gavois

stuff by mandi gavois, from the project 'cars'. see more here.

[all mandi gavois. from the series cars.]

shirin aliabadi

work by shirin aliabadi. take a peek at more here.

[all shirin aliabadi. from the series girls in cars.]

christoph sebastian

from german photographer christoph sebastian's longterm and multifaceted study of the car. see more of his work here.

[all christoph sebastian. from the series korfu. 2006.]

stefan abrams

these are from a pretty incredible series by south african-born, philadelphia-based photographer stefan abrams called auto show. they seem to sum up the alienation of american consumer culture rather poignantly. you can take a peek at more of stefan's work here.

[all stefan abrams. from the series auto show. ]

kathrin klingner

lots of interesting work by german photographer kathrin klingner. with these i love the way she uses tape to draw in the lines of the cars. take a peek at more of her work right here.

[all kathrin klingner. from the series cars.]

raffael waldner

swiss photographer raffael waldner photographs luxury cars that have crashed and been destroyed, contemplating exactly what happens to their symbolic value in this state. see more of raffael's work right here.

[all raffael waldner. from the series cars. top to bottom: mercedes e 500. 2004. audi s6. 2004. alfa romeo spider. 2001.]

geoffroy de boismenu

i like the wit in geoffroy de boismenu's work. this one is called the breathing. you can see more of geoffroy's stuff here. and big-big-big thanks to max for passing along this link.

[both geoffroy de boismenu. from the series the breathing.]

jean-françois lecrenier

these pictures by belgian photographer jean-françois lecrenier make me think of my childhood. it's the vantage point and the shabby 1980s looking cars i suppose. see more of jean's work right here.

[both jean-françois lecrenier. from the series cars.]

andrew bush

there's something so pleasantly unexpected about the sense of perspective in these photos of automobiles by andrew bush. you can see more of his work here.

[all andrew bush. from the series vector. top to bottom: man in cutlas supreme heading south at exactly 65mph on highway #101 near san francisco, ca around 2:30pm on the 24th of january. woman gliding southeast at 70 mph on highway 101 sometime in March 1990 (listening to the silence). family traveling northwest from tulsa, oklahoma, at 63 mph on highway 244 near yale avenue around 4:15 pm on the last day of 1991.]

the atlas group

i've really loved this project by the atlas group since i first came across it at documenta xi. the work is attributed to a fictitious individual named fadl fakhouri, deemed the foremost historian of the lebanese wars. who, as the lore has it, at the time of his death bequeathed 226 notebooks and 2 short films to the atlas group for analysis, exhibition, and presentation. what we see here from notebook 38 is cutout photographs of cars that correspond to the exact make, model, and color of every car that was used as a car bomb in the lebenese civil wars of 1975-1990. spend some time poking around all the interesting projects at the atlas group website here.

[all dr. fadl fakhouri / the atlas group. from notebook volume 38: already been in a lake of fire. 1999.]

nicholas felton • auto type

a nice project idea by graphic designer nicholas felton. he photographs car's names. the weird ideologies betrayed by the fonts are pretty hysterical. you can see more of there here.

[all nicholas felton. from the series auto type. 2006-7. via flickr.]